（外文电子版资料）Vonnegut, Kurt - Mother Night.docVIP

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Mother Night Panther Granada Publishing Limited Published in 1973 by Panther Books Ltd Frogmore, St Albans, Herts AL2 2NF Reprinted 1975, 1976 First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1968 Copyright ? Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1961, 1966 Made and printed in Great Britain by C. Nicholls Company Ltd The Philips Park Press, Manchester Set in Intertype Plantin This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the Publishers prior consent in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published and with a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. This book is published at a net price and is supplied subject to the Publishers Association Standard Conditions of Sale registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956 To Mata Hari  Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath neer within him burnd As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand? — sir walter scott Introduction This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I dont think its a marvellous moral, I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. My personal experience with Nazi monkey business was limited. There were some vile and lively native American Fascists in my home town of Indianapolis during the thirties, and somebody slipped me a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, I remember, which was supposed to be the Jews secret plan for taking over the world. And I remember some laughs about my aunt, too, who married a German German, and who had to write to Indianapolis for proofs that she had no Jewish blood. The Indianapolis mayor knew her from high school and dancing school, so he had fun putting ribbons and official seals all over