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Re: Writing
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:09 pm
by popvulture
D.o.S. wrote:Fuck.
INTERVIEWER
The Franklin Library is bringing out a deluxe edition of Slaughterhouse Five, I believe.
VONNEGUT
Yes. I was required to write a new introduction for it.
INTERVIEWER
Did you have any new thoughts?
VONNEGUT
I said that only one person on the entire planet benefited from the raid, which must have cost tens of millions of dollars. The raid didn’t shorten the war by half a second, didn’t weaken a German defense or attack anywhere, didn’t free a single person from a death camp. Only one person benefited—not two or five or ten. Just one.
INTERVIEWER
And who was that?
VONNEGUT
Me. I got three dollars for each person killed. Imagine that.
God I love him. I think the combination of sentimentality (one of the first I read) and its excellent illustrations, Breakfast of Champions will always be my fave.
And for what it's worth, it always warms some odd part of my soul that he included a butthole in his signature. <3
Re: Writing
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:11 pm
by Invisible Man
That part about the three dollars for each person stopped me dead in my tracks.
Slapstick seemed like a weak one, I thought. Galapagos was a blast, though. I really liked Mother Night, and teach his short stories as often as I can. Harrison Bergeron is pretty well-worn, but it goes over really well in the classroom, and I do weird shit with it (blindfolding entire classes).
Seems appropriate that Vonnegut stuff took over this thread right quick. He'd be the writer's patron saint of these parts, I think, if I had to choose someone.
Re: Writing
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:14 pm
by Invisible Man
Chuckchuck wrote:My favorite part in Inglorious Basterds was when the "Jew Hunter" shouts out, "I love rumors!"
All of the Vonnegut stuff I linked to was to incorporate Chuckchuck's fucking bizarre non sequitur. Now it makes *a little* more sense.
Re: Writing
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:21 pm
by D.o.S.
Slapstick is the best if only by virtue of the fact that homefry himself gave it an A+/F. It also speaks most directly to relationships, which is something that KV didn't spend a lot of time on.
My introduction was reading Cat's Cradle for pleasure in, I think, 6th or 7th grade. Shit fucked me up. Should revisit it.
Re: Writing
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:22 pm
by Chuckchuck
Thanks Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison--felt derived from Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground.
Re: Writing
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:23 pm
by Chuckchuck
I do love Paris Review Interviews.
Re: Writing
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:06 pm
by Iommic Pope
D.o.S. wrote:Slapstick is the best if only by virtue of the fact that homefry himself gave it an A+/F. It also speaks most directly to relationships, which is something that KV didn't spend a lot of time on.
Yeah, sometimes I think the true genius of a thing lies in omission, and the implications that arise from what is left out.
Re: Writing
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 2:11 am
by chuckjaywalk
I'm still mulling it over. I'm unsure what interests me, right now, besides listening to Pavement and eating junk food.
Re: Writing
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:10 am
by Iommic Pope
Back from the dead.
I am now committing to one of my ideas.
I have NO process.
But, i think I know where I want to go.
I hate my life, so it seemed like the logical thing to do.
And now, I torture myself.
Re: Writing
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:11 am
by Invisible Man
Pope--does your location mean that you are on Hoth?
Re: Writing
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:18 pm
by Iommic Pope
Invisible Man wrote:Pope--does your location mean that you are on Hoth?
Only psychologically.
Re: Writing
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:07 pm
by Invisible Man
Whoa
Re: Writing
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:55 am
by Iommic Pope
Invisible Man wrote:Whoa
Re: Writing
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:50 am
by popvulture
Just write yourself a metaphorical Tauntaun, baby, and slice into that sheeit.
Re: Writing
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:21 pm
by Invisible Man
popvulture wrote:Just write yourself a metaphorical Tauntaun baby and slice into that sheeit.
NO COMMAS