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- George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel's cheeks, but she'd forgotten for the moment what they were about.On the television screen were ballerinas.A buzzer sounded in George's head. His thoughts fled in panic.
- 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 sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked
- The rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides
- I am the Emperor! cried Harrison. Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once! He stamped his foot and the studio shook.Even as I stand here he bellowed, crippled, hobbled, sickened - I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!
- Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor
- The story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut highlights the absurdity of hoping for perfect equality. There is no such thing as perfect equality, Vonnegut shows, without a continual, and everchanging sacrifice, which brings constant torment. Even then, perfect equality is still impossible. This delusional idea of perfect equality is ever present in the system of socialism, while everyone is equal, everyone is miserable.
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