I Evoke Brow 31: Screw You, Roman Numerals!

Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
I love coming across passages in books that are wonderfully prescient. The copyright on this novel is 1990 but look at this passage:
“What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming.”
This selection is preceded by a character referring to Yale as “Plantation [...]