Posted by Mike Asher on July 13, 1998 at 10:12:10:
In Reply to: A Real-life Lutwen Atoll posted by Rodger Whitlock on March 19, 1998 at 15:34:56:
Wasn't Ebeye Kurt Vonnegut's inspiration for the island of San Lorenzo in _Cats Cradle_?
: ...Ebeye...nearly fifteen thousand laborers on an island a mile long and two hundred yards wide, a tenth of a square mile...stuck in conditions of unbelievable crowding, disease, and squalor..."If you want to see hell, make a visit to Ebeye."
: I had seen photographs of Ebeye -- the island itself scarcely visible, with virtually every square inch of it covered by tarpaper shacks...
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: Anyone else reminded of Lutwen Atoll in "The Cadwal Chronicles"?