In Part One of this slightly strange documentary, Kurt Vonnegut talks about growing up, writing short stories for the magazines, and then he gets interviewed by his good friend Kilgore Trout.
And in Part Two, Vonnegut talks about science-fiction writers, and Mr. Trout goes to the library to look up his books in the card catalog. Vonnegut also reads a selection from the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five.
In Part Three, Vonnegut reads more from Slaughterhouse-Five (while playing ping-pong), and talks about writing the novel (which is more or less a summary of Chapter 1). Documentary footage of the destruction of Dresden is also included in this part, as Vonnegut describes his experiences that led to the book.
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Mr. Quale! I don’t know if you’ve heard of stumbleupon.com, but it comes up with some of the most interesting stuff on the web sometimes! Anyways, i was stumbling just now and i found this interesting thing of Vonnegut quotes and “posters” and thought of you immediately! I hope Finland is amazing! (are you still there??) and know that we miss you back here in California!
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2lbPWz/www.sloshspot.com/blog/01-24-2009/Kurt-Vonnegut-Motivational-Posters-107
~Connor (Mira Loma)
Thank you for the link and recommendation. We are working on Vonnegut right now, so it works out perfect. I’m actually teaching in Norway, and plan to be here for at least one more year.
Kurt Vonnegut went to UChicago. I’ve been trying forever to figure out which house he stayed at, because I’m going there next year! Check your e-mail, Qualeinator.
I think he studied anthropology there, but not with much success. And he did some reporting for the newspapers as well.