Hey Vonnegut fans, help me out

[SweetZombieJesus]

I just saw this bumper sticker that said "Got Jesus?" and it got me to thinking about this bit in a Vonnegut book about a church/cult that believed Jesus had been kidnapped and hidden on earth by the forces of evil, and they went around looking for him in teapots and such. I think it was Slapstick, but I read it so long ago I can't even remember what Slapstick was about.

[Beetwasher]

1. Are you sure it's Vonnegutt?

And not Robbins?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. It was Slapstick in which that happened

The Church of Jesus Christ the Kidnapped!

[SweetZombieJesus]

3. I thought so!

Cool, I was right. I'm gonna have to pick that one up again sometime.

Didn't they walk on tiptoes for fear Jesus had been shrunk to microscopic size and they'd crush him?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Yep...if they didn't find him, God would exercise his "option"

My sig lines should convince you I would know that :D

[MissMillie]

5. I remember that....

great stuff. Everyone went looking for the missing Jesus, under tables in restaurants, behind closed doors, in the soup kettle....

[REP]

12. Lonesome No More!

Lonesome Thank God!

[MuseRider]

6. That was such

a good book! I will have to read that one again, it has been a while.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Galapagos is perhaps a bit more fitting for the times

The story about human beings becoming extinct due to the fact that their brains were much to big to be useful.

[SweetZombieJesus]

8. Was Slapstick the one where the President gave everyone a second middle

name, usually a flower, I think, where everyone who had that same second middle name were now part of an artificial family?

Actually, just refresh my memory and tell me what Slapstick was about.

[CanuckAmok]

9. after 1 billion years of inbread evolution,

when the descendents of the last human breeders were covered in fur, had flippers, and ate live fish, the only remaining trace of present humanity was their finding fart jokes endlessly hilarious.

What a mind!

[SweetZombieJesus]

10. kick

Still need a refresher on what Slapstick was about.

[CanuckAmok]

11. From Amazon.com's synopsis:

"Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, centenarian, the last President of the United States, King of Manhattan, and one-half (along with his sister, Eliza) of the most powerful intelligence since Einstein, is penning his autobiography. He occupies the first floor of a ruined Empire State Building and lives like a royal scavenger with his illiterate granddaughter and her beau. Buffeted by fluctuating gravity, the U.S. has been scourged by not one, but two lethal diseases: the Green Death and the Albanian Flu. Consequently, the country has fallen into civil war. (Super-intelligent, miniaturized Chinese watch the West self-destruct from the sidelines.) Swain stayed at the White House until there were no citizens left to govern, then moved to deserted New York City, where he writes a thoughtful missive before death..."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385334230/104-5795360-2535169?v=glance&vi=reviews


Incidentally, this was the first Vonnegut novel I ever read.