where progress clashes with tradition
blithely ignorant of all that awaits them
creates a new idiom in which to express eternal feelings-remain as alive and immediate today as ever
Patrick feels on top of the world
Breakfast of Champions where progress clashes with tradition"Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable." The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and