Talk:Galápagos (novel)

oversize human brain
This isn't worthy of placement on the article page, but I think it's an interesting opinion for readers to consider.

"the only true villain in my story: the oversize human brain"

Vonnegut's consistently proven himself something of a master of satire and sarcasm, and it is my opinion that this line is bitingly sarcastic. Consider how Leon suggests this, in that it almost seems as if he is choking, trying to reassure himself. I think Vonnegut wishes us more appalled than anything, and it is my opinion that he values thought more than a lot of things.


 * Well, it's closely related to the "bad chemicals" idea that suffuses Breakfast of Champions, so I'm not sure it's completely sarcastic. Vonnegut's own mother committed suicide by swallowing Draino, it is reported; I think he does recognize that the brain is at least sometimes its own enemy. --Rpresser 03:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I think Vonnegut would be the first to admit that he didn't quite pull off what he wished to with Galapagos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.103.81.34 (talk) 10:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

NPOV dispute
the paragraph in question is purely editorial in nature and should be removed/rewritten. --67.101.96.249 01:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, it was from a book review and was introduced as such...

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Kanka-bono girls
No mention to de Kanka-bono girls as characters. Certainly they are very important for the future of humankind in the plot. --87.222.96.183 (talk) 08:34, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Stephen Jay Gould
In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, he says this about Galapagos:
 * Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos (1985) is an even more conscious and direct commentary on the meaning of evolution from a writer's standpoint. I feel especially gratified that a cruise to the Galapagos, a major source of Vonnegut's decision to write the book, should have suggested contingency as the cardinal theme taught by Darwin's geographic shrine. In Vonnegut's novel, the pathways of history may be broadly constrained by such general principles as natural selection, but contingency has so much maneuvering room within these boundaries that any particular outcome owes more to a quirky series of antecedent events than to channels set by nature's laws.  Galapagos, in fact, is a novel about the nature of history in Darwin's world.  I would (and do) assign it to students in science courses as a guide to understanding the meaning of contingency.

I'm not sure if it is appropriate to mention that in the article but I thought I'd drop it here. Jstuby (talk) 20:17, 29 June 2021 (UTC)