My friend said that he couldn’t go skating, but I don’t want to go skating on my own.
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Vonnegut may have wanted to appeal to readers' interests in prophecies about the future. ... Vonnegut almost certainly wanted to mock the growing emphasis in his day not simply on equality of opportunities (which most people endorse) but equality of outcomes (which many people think is impossible to dictate).
Ronald C. White Jr. wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln.
He means mischief is the thoughts f a desperate man he thinks bad things because he is a impatient person