Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Those Boots Were Almost All He Owned In This World. They Were His Home. An Anecdote: One Time A Recruit Was Watching Him Bone And Wax Those Golden Boots, And He Held One Up To The Recruit And Said, 'If You Look In There Deeply Enough, You'll See Adam And Eve.'
Billy Pilgrim Had Not Heard This Anecdote. But, Lying On The Black Ice There, Billy Stared Into The Patina Of The Corporal's Boots, Saw Adam And Eve In The Golden Depths. They Were Naked. They Were So Innocent, So Vulnerable, So Eager To Behave Decently. Billy Pilgrim Loved Them.
Next To The Golden Boots Were A Pair Of Feet Which Were Swaddled In Rags. They Were Crisscrossed By Canvas Straps, Were Shod With Hinged Wooden Clogs. Billy Looked Up At The Face That Went With The Clogs. It Was The Face Of A Blond Angel Of Fifteen-year-old Boy.
The Boy Was As Beautiful As Eve.
Billy Was Helped To His Feet By The Lovely Boy, By The Heavenly Androgyne.

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