具体描述
"Report on the Barnhouse Effect" is a Kurt Vonnegut short story that is part of the collection Welcome to the Monkey House. It originally appeared in 1950 in Collier's Weekly. It is also the subject of an Alexisonfire song.
The protagonist, Professor Arthur Barnhouse, develops the ability to affect physical objects & events thru the force of his mind. He calls his power 'dynamo-psychism'. He makes the mistake of telling the government about his power. When they try to turn him into a weapon, Barnhouse decides that he is the first weapon with a conscience, & goes into hiding. While in this reclusive state the Professor uses his 'dynamo-psychic' powers to destroy large quantities of weapons, & other things used in states of war. He realizes tho, that he will die eventually & decides to pass down his "powers" to an ex-student. The story is told as a report by this ex-student, hence the title.
作者简介
Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.
He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.
After the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. He attributed his unadorned writing style to his reporting work.
His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. This event would also form the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, the book which would make him a millionaire. This acerbic 200-page book is what most people mean when they describe a work as "Vonnegutian" in scope.
Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist (influenced by the style of Indiana's own Eugene V. Debs) and a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The novelist is known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973)
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评分1950. He who rules the Barnhouse effect rules the world hahaaaa倚天劍屠龍刀既視感 /是我見識少還是冷戰文學除了間諜那一套其他的現在來看都會無聊?
评分1950. He who rules the Barnhouse effect rules the world hahaaaa倚天劍屠龍刀既視感 /是我見識少還是冷戰文學除了間諜那一套其他的現在來看都會無聊?
评分1950. He who rules the Barnhouse effect rules the world hahaaaa倚天劍屠龍刀既視感 /是我見識少還是冷戰文學除了間諜那一套其他的現在來看都會無聊?
评分1950. He who rules the Barnhouse effect rules the world hahaaaa倚天劍屠龍刀既視感 /是我見識少還是冷戰文學除了間諜那一套其他的現在來看都會無聊?
评分1950. He who rules the Barnhouse effect rules the world hahaaaa倚天劍屠龍刀既視感 /是我見識少還是冷戰文學除了間諜那一套其他的現在來看都會無聊?
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