Kurt Vonnegut: "You will see this story over and over again. People love it and it is not copyrighted. The story is 'Man in Hole,' but the story needn't be about a man or a hole. It's: somebody gets into trouble, gets out of it again."

Authored by austinkleon.com and submitted by SAT0725

“A visitor to the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Serralves museum in Porto was hospitalised this week after falling inside one of the British artist’s installations, which features a 2.5-metre-deep hole. It is not clear whether he fell into the hole or beside it.”

“Attendees of previous showings of the work have questioned ‘whether there really was a hole in the floor or whether it was simply a circle painted with an extremely dark black paint.’ Presumably there will be no doubts going forward.”

“Ladies and gentlemen: I invented the portable hole for the good of humanity. But let us all hope it will never be used for evil purposes.”

—Professor Calvin Q. Calculus, “The Hole Idea,” 1955

“On Sunday, May 30, 2010, an enormous hole, 60 feet wide and 30 stories deep, opened up in the middle of Guatemala City, swallowing a three-story building, a home, and local reports claimed that one man was killed when the building was swallowed.”

“Images of the crater, 20 metres across, 30 metres deep and nearly perfectly round, were published around the world — prompting complaints that the picture had been manipulated. But city officials said the crater was both real and round.”

“HOLEY TERROR STILL ON THE LOOSE.”

—Newspaper headline, “The Hole Idea,” 1955

“You will see this story over and over again. People love it and it is not copyrighted. The story is ‘Man in Hole,’ but the story needn’t be about a man or a hole. It’s: somebody gets into trouble, gets out of it again.”

billthomson on August 24th, 2018 at 14:53 UTC »

I guess I'll drop one of my favorite quotes of all-time here, from Cat's Cradle:

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

LonesomeDub on August 24th, 2018 at 13:55 UTC »

There's another quote he has, which I'm paraphrasing from memory:

"The Bible may be the greatest book ever written, but the greatest story you can ever tell is to have two young people fall in love and then have to stop fucking while it's still a novelty"

dinosaur_socks on August 24th, 2018 at 13:12 UTC »

There is no cat, there is no cradle