Mark the Calendar February 13

February 13:

2001 – The Universe suffers a crisis of self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What is the point? Kurt Vonnegut Jr: Timequake.

Awaiting trial, Mr. Pickwick consults his attorney. Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Opening line:

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Opening line:

All this happened, more or less.