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| Trout said at the clambake in 2001 that life was undeniably preposterous. "But our brains are big enough to let us adapt to the inevitable pratfalls and buffoonery," he went on, "by means of manmade epiphanies like this one." He meant the clambake on the beach under a starry sky. "If this isn't nice, what is?" he said. He declared the corn on the cob, steamed in seaweed with lobsters and clams, to be heavenly. He added, "And don't all the ladies look like angels tonight!" He was feasting on corn on the cob and women as ideas. He couldn't eat the corn because the upper plate of his false teeth was insecure. His long-term relationships with women had been disasters. In the only love story he had ever attempted, "Kiss Me Again," he had written, "There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time." The moral at the end of the story is this: "Men are jerks. Women are psychotic." |
| Vonnegut, Kurt. Timequake. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997), p.19 |
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| On 22 Oct 2001 12:14:46 -0700 Sham Man ported an article from the NY Post which read, in part: PAGE SIX By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON October 22, 2001 -- Kurt's back and writing too FIVE years after declaring he would never write again, Kurt Vonnegut is back in New York working on a new book. "My new novel is called 'If God Were Alive Today,' about a standup comic in New York, and the guy is a real baby boomer, born in 1958," the 79-year-old legend told Webster Hall art curator Baird Jones. |
| New York Times To the Editor: There was "The Gilded Age" and then "The Roaring Twenties". May I suggest a name for the era now ending, with the stock market again unwell? "The Silly Con Age". It was just lying in the middle of the street, waiting for somebody to pick it up. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Sagaponack, N.Y., June 26, 2002 |
| "I figured I had to make the hero that young so there would be no way that Nick Nolte could play him," Vonnegut joked. "I have harmed his career too much already." Nolte starred in the movies of "Mother Night" and "Breakfast of Champions" - which "bombed so badly," Vonnegut noted. "That's all that I am going to tell anyone." But Vonnegut's wife, photographer, Jill Krementz, revealed more details at the premiere for "Amelie," Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new romantic comedy. "It's an upbeat book," Krementz told us. "Nothing happens bad to the guy at the end, although I don't even think that Kurt absolutely knows how it ends, not that he would tell me if he did. The only way I find out the plot of Kurt's novels is by peering over his shoulder when he is typing." Krementz says that at this point, "it looks like he's around halfway through and the best I can tell is that it definitely takes place in contemporary New York and there are a lot of jokes in nightclubs." And on 30 Apr 2002 02:34:59 GMT Tony posted in here: Just to let you all know Kurt made it to Albuquerque, NM. He seemed to be in good health and spirits. By the way he mentioned he has a new book circulating amongst his publishers so hopefully we will see the new book soon. Unless I've overlooked something, that's about all we know right now. -- [email protected] � "Cleaning birdshit out of cuckoo clocks." -- KV |