Kurt Vonnegut

Apr 13, 2007 3 Replies

God rest his soul.



I heard a mention of an argument with Saab having cost him the Nobel prize for literature on Radio 4 last night. So I investigated. See Here:-



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Quite an interesting piece, if short! I'm off to Amazon to buy myself a copy of Slaughterhouse 5.



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there's been =some discussion if this was really true. It seems there never existed a "Saab = Cape Cod".

Who makes the best watches? The Swedes? Or is he (or the customer) mixing= up the Swedes with the Swiss?

He really did not know what he was talking about... no wonder he went out= of business (if he was ever in it).

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This seems to indicate their was:

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I think we need something from an official town record to verify this. Anyone want to drive to Cape Cod?

I found his writing the equivalent of mid to late Picasso's. Artsy, fartsy folks stand around and ooh and ahh at how wonderful it is; to me it looks like the product of a very distorted mind and I wouldn't pay $1 for it.

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