---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
Not sure which novel. Hmmmm. I think it was the book where Trout's son was a piano player who did TM and at some point someone's face got scraped bloody by being raked along a piano's keys. If I remember rightly, then there also was a very bad presentation of the TM technique...and maybe the son was shouting his mantra aloud at some point there....dunno. But at the time I was a true believer, and that book put me off my feed as a Vonnegut fan. Might have been "God Bless You Mr. Goldwater." I believe it was Breakfast of Champions, the character ended up getting beaten to death while meditating, clearly the concept of the Maharishi Effect hadn't been introduced yet.... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote : Thanks "Buck in the Dome". That was new info for me. It sounds a high-energy period in the life of the TMO. And "Duveyoung": what was the novel you refer to? I've read a couple of Kurt's novels (Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle) but the TM link isn't in either of those. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Yeah, Ol' Kurt loved TM so much he wrote a novel in which a character learned TM, and Kurt DISCLOSED HIS MANTRA IN THE BOOK, and then that character proceeded to GO VIOLENTLY NUTS. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Yeah, Ol' Kurt loved TM so much he wrote a novel in which a character learned TM, and Kurt DISCLOSED HIS MANTRA IN THE BOOK, and then that character proceeded to GO VIOLENTLY NUTS.
