Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Q&N: Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut) from
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