Sunday, October 24, 2004
KILGORE TROUT
Kurt Vonnegut emerged from the drama pages of The Los Angeles Times this morning. 
I double-taked. Kurt Vonnegut. Imagine. He is still alive. Born 1922; figure it out, yeh, 82. Ripe.
They are reviving his play (I think the only one but I am too lazy to look it up) Happy Birthday Wanda June. It is comedy (of course) based on what happens when Odysseus returns from the war. It became a cult classic, not because he intended to write about Viet Nam, but because VN was happening and anything construable as anti-war became anti-war. Of course, Vonnegut was a pacifist and all which did not hurt.
That is about all that there is to it. There was a time when we awaited each new Vonnegut book with excited anticipation. He was funny and spot on. A good read. I suppose that he still is. I am almost tempted to go back and do it again.
I just realized in a link test that you have to pay to read this article unless you subscribe to the paper. Go to Vonnegutia instead. It will be a lot more satisfying than this trivial little article. KV is the main point anyway. Tooweet! And so on.
