The Onions of Champions
PBS's "NOW" devoted its whole show to Kurt Vonnegut last Friday. His new book, "A Man Without a Country" looks like fun. Here's a typical Vonneguttism excerpted from the interview with David Brancaccio:
DAVID BRANCACCIO: Well, you were writing about maybe you want to sue your cigarette companies? You smoked all those years and there's a warning on the package saying that this will --
KURT VONNEGUT: Brown and Williams, on their package, promise to kill me. And they haven't done it. I mean, here I am 83.
Read the full transcript here or, if you have iTunes, go ahead and treat yourself to NOW's podcast/xml (mp3) feed.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: Well, you were writing about maybe you want to sue your cigarette companies? You smoked all those years and there's a warning on the package saying that this will --
KURT VONNEGUT: Brown and Williams, on their package, promise to kill me. And they haven't done it. I mean, here I am 83.
Read the full transcript here or, if you have iTunes, go ahead and treat yourself to NOW's podcast/xml (mp3) feed.
1 Comments:
Bravo, excellent idea
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