Found short story title

[Jan Hylen <jhylen@LIB.NMSU.EDU>]

Wow!! Once again, you people are AWESOME!! Within 5 minutes I had two
replies, and two more within 10 minutes. My original post:

> Please help!!
> I have a student who is looking for a story he read in his English textbook
> in high school. It is about a story where a man is walking through a town,
> and notices that people have on ugly masks, or weights on their legs, etc.
> The idea in town was to make everybody equal, so if you were beautiful you
> wore an ugly mask, and if you were a good athlete, you wore the weights.
> But, of course, if you saw someone with an ugly mask, you knew they were
> beautiful. Does this ring a bell with anyone? We don't even know how to
> look it up. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. I'll post
> the answer.

The answer: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, found in _Welcome to the
Monkey's House_.

Special thanks to Susan, Jon, Elizabeth, and Beverley.

The student is thrilled, and thinks librarians are GREAT!!
Jan
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Jan Hylen
Education Librarian
University Library, MSC 3475
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30006
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006
(505) 646-6927     fax: (505) 646-3390
jhylen@lib.nmsu.edu

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