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Something was missing from the encomia marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kurt Vonnegut nine days ago. There was no reference to his characteristically dystopian work Harrison Bergeron. Given that the late American novelist's own country is riven by the debate over discrimination based on race, this short story published in 1961 is strangely topical. It describes a society that has taken concerns about fairness to their logical conclusion: the 211th, 212th and 213th amendments to the US constitution mandate that no American shall be made to feel inferior to another.

Vonnegut creates the terrifying character Diana Moon Glampers, who is the US handicapper-general. Her task is to decide the various impediments that must be imposed on the most "unfairly" intelligent or