Slaughterhouse-Five has been turned Into an opera by a young German, And will have its premiere in Munich… — Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five has been turned
Into an opera by a young German,
And will have its premiere in Munich this June.
I’m not going there either.
Not interested.
I am fond of Occam’s Razor,
Or the Law of Parsimony, which suggests
That the simplest explanation of a phenomenon
Is usually the most trustworthy.
And I now believe, with David’s help,
That writer’s block is finding out
How lives of loved ones really ended
Instead of the way we hoped they would end
With the help of our body English.
Fiction is body English.
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I asked Kilgore Trout for his ballpark opinion of John Wilkes Booth. He said Booth's performance in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., on the night of Good Friday, April 14th, 1865, when he shot Lincoln and then jumped from a theater box to the stage, breaking his leg, was "the sort of thing which is bound to happen whenever an actor creates his own material."
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