Perhaps another Hoosier can add some insight into the fatal attack of Dawn Brancheau of Cedar Lake, Indiana by a captive killer whale.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s
Breakfast of Champions, or Good-Bye Blue Monday is relevant to this sad set of circumstances and I think it should be considered at a time like this. In
Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout, an out-of print science fiction writer, created an alien character that came from a planet which communicated by tap dancing and farting. The alien was killed in a sad incident as well. He he tried to explain his circumstances in a bedroom on earth,
he was promptly killed by a man with a five iron. "A total lack of communication." Kilgore Trout's other novel described in this book is one that "poisoned" the mind of a Pontiac car salesman in Indiana. That novel told the reader that "he was the only one with "free will". Apparently a "Free Willy" does too. The pony tail dropped on the rostrum, and "Good-Bye Blue Monday"!.
