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Kurt Vonnegut, “Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday”
Good News

— Harry, — said Dwayne. — I have some news for you: modern science has given us a whole lot of wonderful new colors, with strange, exciting names like red!orange!green!, and pink!, Harry. We’re not stuck any more with just black, gray and white! Isn’t that good news, Harry? And the State Legislature has just announced that it is no longer a crime to smile during working hours, Harry, and I have the personal promise of the Governor that never again will anybody be sent to the Sexual Offenders’ Wing of the Adult Correctional Institution for telling a joke!

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