In Kurt Vonnegut’s science-fiction novel Slapstick, the protagonist, a would-be messiah elected President of the United States, institutes as his main and only policy the creation of new family ties between Americans by assigning clusters of them new middle names:
“As I said in my speech,” I told him, “your new middle name would consist of a noun, the na…
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