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Employee at Dwayne Hoover's dealership that has a Buick car as his last name.
What is Harry LeSabre.
100
"After they [the Germans] got well again, they manufactured a cheap and durable automobile which become popular all over the world, especially among young people. It looked like this:
What is a beetle
100
"People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve."
What is depression, anxiety, chemical dependency, drugs, etc., etc.
100
According to Trout mirrors are referred to as
What is leaks.
100
"If all writers would do that [bring chaos], then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead."
What is a questioning of meaning, of truth, of life, etc.
200
Individual Kilgore drives across a few states with.
What is the trucker.
200
"For example, teachers of the children in the USA wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy:
What is 1492.
200
"Actually, sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and even after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their descendents continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines."
What is dismissing the individual, man as machine, critique of the human, the treatment of humans, etc.
200
Trout's stories are published in.
What is pornographic magazines.
200
"The white farmers down there weren't using machines made out of meat anymore, though, because machines made out of metal were cheaper and more reliable, and required simpler homes."
What is man as a machine, the legacy of slavery, critique of the story we usually tell ourselves, maximization of profit, capitalism, etc.
300
Black ex convict whose only dream was to work for Dwayne Hoover.
What is Wayne Hoobler.
300
"This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings. It looked like this:"
What is a gun.
300
"When Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout met each other, their country was by far the riches and most powerful country on the planet. It had most of the food and minerals and machinery, and it disciplined other countries by threatening to shoot big rockets at the or to drop things on them from airplanes."
What is questioning of war, patriotism, power, etc.
300
Trout suggests that the national anthem is
What is pure balderdash.
300
"Viet Nam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. The chemicals he mentioned were intended to kill all the foliage, so it would be harder for communists to hide from airplanes."
What is questioning of the purpose of war, the basic elements, etc.
400
President who is poked fun at for hypocritical stance.
What is Thomas Jefferson.
400
"A black male dishwasher stepped out of the kitchen of the Inn now for a Pall Mall cigarette and some fresh air. He wore a large button on his sweat-soaked T-shirt which said this:"
What is support the arts.
400
Discussion of the destruction of the countryside via mining
What is critique of capitalism, consumerism, etc. This could be answered in a variety of ways.
400
To be they eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.
What is the purpose of life
400
"It didn't matter much what Dwayne said. It hadn't mattered much for years. It didn't matter much what most people in Midland City said out loud, except when they were talking about money or structures or travel or machinery -- or other measurable things."
What is the importance of the measurable -- money, capitalism, profit, etc.
500
Dwayne Hoover's son
What is Bunny Hoover.
500
"The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be that same abbreviation which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one:
What is ETC.
500
"He (the old miner) remembered out loud when he and other miners used to try to force the Rosewater Coal and Iron Company to treat them like human beings. They would fight small wars with the company's private police and the State Police and the National Guard."
What is lack of unions, decent wages, power, control, abuse of humans, treating humans like machines, etc.
500
Bermuda
What is place where Trout was born.
500
Tombstone of an individual in a Trout novel: "Not even the creator of the universe knew what the man was going to say next: perhaps the man was a better universe in its infancy."
What is life, the human condition, pain, suffering, etc.