"In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond."
I've seen this letter before but reading anew gave me such joy. God Bless You Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut.
I've seen this letter before but reading anew gave me such joy. God Bless You Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut.
Kurt Vonnegut was just another despicable communist, albeit one who wrote a popular anti-war novel. I read "Slaughterhouse 5" as a teen. It was a ridiculous, incoherent story, but told in a very readable fashion.
ReplyDeleteHave always been amused by how Vonnegut would give his own take on the definitions of certain words. So amused that I contemplated writing a Vonnegut dictionary at one point compiling all those unique definitions. To this day I can't see the words "spread-eagle." without thinking of Vonnegut's definition from Breakfast of Champions
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