He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good—no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sash-weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. This excerpt best illustrates Kurt Vonnegut’s message that (a) everyone in a society should have equal talent and beauty. (b) advances in technology should be closely monitored. (c) television viewing limits individual thought and creativity. (d) absolute equality prevents personal freedoms of expression.
