http://zod1703.edublogs.org/2008/03/14/title-deserved/ not your father's war blog site Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:20:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://zod1703.edublogs.org/2008/03/14/title-deserved/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Comments Post | Machiavelli Owns A Machine Gun Now Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:09:23 +0000 http://zod1703.edublogs.org/2008/03/14/title-deserved/#comment-10 [...] Title Deserved — by Michael [...] [...] Title Deserved — by Michael [...]

]]> http://zod1703.edublogs.org/2008/03/14/title-deserved/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Brian Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:16:01 +0000 http://zod1703.edublogs.org/2008/03/14/title-deserved/#comment-8 Ahh... very thoughtful. I never thought about the names in Slaughterhouse Five in that way, but it does make sense. Although I wonder how the historical figures really got their names. I mean, was Ivan the Terrible called that while he was alive? I would think that with a name like that, nobody would dare speak it in front of him. Maybe everybody should have names like these. We would know exactly what we have coming when we vote for somebody. I think that if the presidential candidates in 2000 had been called Bush the Belligerent and Gore the Great, the results would have been much different. I realized when reading Slaughterhouse Five that the names were a bit ridiculous at times, but I never put much thought into it. Joseph Heller, a friend of Vonnegut's, wrote "Catch-22" and used absurd names as well. There was Major Major Major Major, Lieutenant Scheisskopf (if you know any German, its funny), Milo Minderbinder, and my personal favorite, Major —— de Coverley, who was so intimidating, no one dared ask his first name. Heller's work was published 8 years before Vonnegut's, which makes me wonder if Vonnegut used Heller's concept. Kudos for catching this though! Ahh… very thoughtful. I never thought about the names in Slaughterhouse Five in that way, but it does make sense. Although I wonder how the historical figures really got their names. I mean, was Ivan the Terrible called that while he was alive? I would think that with a name like that, nobody would dare speak it in front of him.
Maybe everybody should have names like these. We would know exactly what we have coming when we vote for somebody. I think that if the presidential candidates in 2000 had been called Bush the Belligerent and Gore the Great, the results would have been much different.
I realized when reading Slaughterhouse Five that the names were a bit ridiculous at times, but I never put much thought into it. Joseph Heller, a friend of Vonnegut’s, wrote “Catch-22″ and used absurd names as well. There was Major Major Major Major, Lieutenant Scheisskopf (if you know any German, its funny), Milo Minderbinder, and my personal favorite, Major —— de Coverley, who was so intimidating, no one dared ask his first name. Heller’s work was published 8 years before Vonnegut’s, which makes me wonder if Vonnegut used Heller’s concept. Kudos for catching this though!

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