![]() ![]() An interesting thing happened in the Hawaiian Islands, where they had been throwing trash down extinct volcanoes for years: a couple of the volcanoes all of a sudden spit it all back up. Everything had turned to shit and beer cans and old automobiles and Clorox bottles. In 1989, America staged the Big Space Fuck, which was a serious effort to make sure that human life would continue to exist somewhere in the Universe, since it certainly couldn’t continue much longer on Earth. In fact, any woman who volunteered for one got her choice of a bathroom scale or a table lamp. This was not only an effort to achieve justice but to discourage reproduction, since there wasn’t anything much to eat any more. ![]() ![]() He could take them to court and make them pay money and even serve jail terms for serious mistakes they made when he was just a helpless little kid. In 1987 it became possible in the United States of America for a young person to sue his parents for the way he had been raised. ![]() I did it for my friend Harlan Ellison, who printed it in his anthology Again, Dangerous Visions. It was probably the last short story I will ever write. “What was the dirtiest story I ever wrote?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in Palm Sunday, his 1981 “autobiographical collage.” “Surely ‘The Big Space Fuck,’ the first story of literature to have ‘fuck’ in its title. KURT VONNEGUT / AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS, HARLAN ELLISON, ED., 1972 ![]()
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