Kurt Vonnegut's last conversation with Kilgore Trout, who apparently committed suicide-by-Drano on October 15 after a psychic told him that Bush would "win" reelection again in a five-four Supreme Court decision.
An excerpt:
KV: Look, when you put a piece of paper in your typewriter, don’t you try to make it exactly what it should be?
TROUT: No, I just effing write.
KV: What are you effing writing now?
TROUT: It’s about how the future has as much to do with the present as the past does. Giraffes can only have come from the future. There’s no way evolution in the past would have let something that defenseless and impractical live for 15 minutes.
KV: If you say so.
TROUT: Try this: The First World War was caused by the second one. Otherwise the first one makes no sense, wasn’t about anything. And all Picasso had to do was paint pictures that were already hanging in museums in the future.
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Gerry Canavan @ 9:56 AM
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