Here's Vonnegut's brilliant short story (from over 60 years ago) about a society dedicated completely (and horrifyingly) to equality and conformity.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 28 Mar freebie
love this short story. Anyone ever seen an artist render the image of a ballerina in chains? I just think that concept is super striking.
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 29 Mar
I found a couple of pieces when I searched for Harrison Bergeron fan art (see below), but I feel that enough people today just aren't familiar enough with the story to create a lot of related art. Though there's an entire secondary subgenre of stories of ballet as horror/horrific (classically in The Red Shoes, and more recently in both versions of Suspiria, Black Swan, even the use of ballet in Us).
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