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Uploaded by on Apr 12, 2007

goodbye blue monday: I'm more Kilgore than Kurt.
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  • Vonnegut, One of my heros!

  • I hung his picture on my wall.

  • Unbelievably pretentious.

    People like you, man.

  • Yes, just look at what passes for "Entertainment" these days -- consider the "Talent" out there ... MEDIOCRITY rules!

    Turn on TV, radio, etc. -- it's a WASTELAND!

  • HiHo

  • All of this is a true story unfolding as a series of comments under a video by a Fleetwood who understands both Kurt Vonnegut and Kilgore Trout.

    What to make of that?

    If you prefer chronological order it should be read bottom up.

    One also notes that both Kurt Vonnegut and Kilgore Trout make another appearance.

    I remember only three things about Venus On The Half Shell.

    First, it was good.

    Second, it easily passed as Vonnegut himself.

    Third I remember the woman on the paperback cover.

  • I don't really know if my ego is still on that long walk when we disappeared from one another's sight.

    So I tend to be tentative with strangers.

    Just in case we meet again.

    My ego was not a bad fellow, but very naive.

    He and I share one useful human trait--he believed in self-defense but he never made the first move.

    In a world peopled with creatures like that would there be an end to war?

    Then again, what about women who misconstrue anger in the temple and count it the first act of war?

  • Many decades later a woman told me: "You say you have no ego, but isn't your anger your ego?"

    I had apparently mentioned the story of the money changers in the temple one too many times.

    How was I to know that it had been long ago excised from her family's New Testament, which they read once a week and very prosperously?

    I turned her proposition over for three years after we split.

    I am happy to say she was wrong.

    That is a considered judgment.

    I am also happy to say I am still vain.

  • Kilgore Trout: an alter ego who wrote his own first class fiction, under the pseudonym Philip Jose Farmer, which Philip Jose Farmer for years many--including me--reckoned to be Kurt Vonnegut.

    Perfect circle.

    Some years later in graduate school I had my own alter ego.

    I have no idea what he wrote.

    I remember only that he typed on soft yellow paper in an Olympia portable.

    Shortly after, ego disappeared on a long walk.

    Better to benefit my fellow man, I now cultivate vanity.

  • 5&F

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