During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not… — Kurt Vonnegut

During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, "fit to split the ears of groundlings." He asked if it had a name, and I said "Indianapolis."

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