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	Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vonnegut also explored this pessimistic theme in Slaughterhouse-Five, in which protagonist Billy Pilgrim "has come unstuck in time" and has so little control over his own life that he cannot even predict which part of it he will be living through from minute to minute.
		Vonnegut is a humanist; he currently serves as Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having replaced Isaac Asimov in what Vonnegut calls "that totally functionless capacity".
		Vonnegut played himself in a cameo in 1986's Back To School and is invoked as a pop culture reference in many teen flicks such as Can't Hardly Wait, in which the character Preston (Ethan Embry) is bound for Massachusetts to attend a writing seminar by the acclaimed author.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut (2079 words)

	MSN Encarta - Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut insists that humans have no choice but to view modern civilization with a mixture of sadness and humor and that the cruelty of life must be countered with a genuine charity for human weakness.
		Vonnegut’s novels often mix contrasting literary styles, intertwining philosophical speculation with homespun advice or incorporating his own crude line drawings into the narrative.
		Captured by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge that same year, Vonnegut was held prisoner in a slaughterhouse in the German city of Dresden.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761572520 (722 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: So it goes.
		Vonnegut and the other POWs, along with most of their German stewards – the only real military personnel in the city – survived the fire-bombing by remaining in the underground meat locker they were being held in, which was protected from the heat and smoke above: Slaughterhouse-Five.
		Vonnegut was disappointed because the worst reaction to the film came from the PEN members who were given a special advance showing.
		Vonnegut says that Alex used to tell him to take time out to recognize the things people usually take for granted and say, "If this isn't nice, what is?" and then goes on to say that Uncle Alex "said that when things were really going well we should be sure to notice it" (Timequake, 12).
	www.wdog.com /rider/writings/KVJ_soitgoes.htm (5048 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut -- Vonnegut.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Vonnegut also experimented with smaller etchings, whose subjects were often self portraits, usually profiles with bushy hair and drooping cigarette, roughly similar to the one that appears at the end of Breakfast of Champions.
		As Vonnegut describes it, writing is labor, and the writer's reward arrives when he or she hands the manuscript to the editor and says, "It's yours.
		Vonnegut enjoys the work of Paul Klee and Georges Braque, calling the latter "a special hero," and is intrigued by what the cubists did in "breaking up the chaotic into geometric forms, pleasing shapes" (Vonnegut 10/18/95).
	www.vonnegut.com /artist.asp (3891 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut couches this question in an entertaining tale of natural selection where humankind as we know it meets its end and everybody is better off for it.
		Vonnegut sheds the shackles of convention and offers a surprisingly upbeat and optimistic pastiche of fiction, memoir, and metaphysics which pokes and probes the question of free will.
		Vonnegut claims it will be his last book, but he probably doesn't have a choice in the matter.
	www.zverina.com /bestbooks/vonnegut.htm (890 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - a Star Library biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis Nov. 11, 1922 to Kurt and Edith (Lieber) Vonnegut Sr.
		Vonnegut was in Dresden when the city was virtually destroyed by an intense Allied bombing campaign.
		Vonnegut married Jane Cox, a childhood sweetheart in 1945.
	www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/v/vonnegut_kurt/vonnegut.html (494 words)

	Eye - BOOKS: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 07.14.94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The idea that Kurt Vonnegut, the pure form, the manufacturing machine who made those books, was going to be in the room made me feel a bit like the fictional character Kilgore Trout in Breakfast Of Champions, who discovered that he was sitting in a bar beside his creator.
		Vonnegut explained that people never tired of the story where a person with a relatively good station in life suffers a series of misfortunes, and eventually finds within himself the resources to regain or even better the position he was once in.
		Vonnegut implies that most of us are not that resourceful and would probably flounder in poverty, and this story isn't a good one because it isn't anything like the truth.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.14.94/ARTS/bo0714a.htm (722 words)

	The Book Report - An Introduction to Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut subverts that assumption, often repeating that reading is hard enough as it is, so it's the writer's job to 1) have something to say and 2) say it clearly.
		Criticized by his own father for never having created a villain, Vonnegut's characters are motivated by either lonesomeness, boredom ("What are people for?"), or biological and environmental factors beyond their control.
		Vonnegut's ideas are so humane, his words so compassionate, his advice so sensible, that his readers feel a strong connection to the man, and, by extension, to one another.
	www.zverina.com /bestbooks/vonnegut-intro.htm (572 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 95, T-Z
		Vonnegut's sixth book, one of the novels that began earning him a small but passionate following in the mid-1960s, before his breakthrough to the status of "major author," which came when Slaughterhouse-Five was published.
		Vonnegut's masterwork, a powerful fictional memoir of his experiences during the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany.
		Vonnegut's philosophical reflections on the tragic absurdity of humankind are embedded in an impressionistic, pessimistic, comic science fiction tale that is a high spot of the literature of the 1960s and since.
	www.lopezbooks.com /95/95-07.html (2594 words)

	Palm Sunday : Books on CD at Audio-CD-Books.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Palm Sunday reads like Vonnegut's impassioned plea for forgiveness, or perhaps sainthood.
		It was refreshing to see that Kurt believes the worst book he ahs written is Slapstick, he gives it a D. I never liked that book, and now I feel like it is OK to not like it.
		However if you are a big Vonnegut fan like me, you might want to pick this up and get a little insight into his warped mind.
	audio-cd-books.com /audio-books/cds-name-PalmSunday-item_id-038528747X.html (193 words)

	Palm Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, Year A ª March 20, 2005 Passion (Palm) Sunday, Year A Attendance: 20 (11 boys, 9 girls) Communion: 6 Entrance song: He's...
		March 24th, 2002 Palm Sunday Background: Were the same people in the Palm Sunday procession in Jerusalem and in the crowds which demanded Jesus's execution a few days later.
		Palm Sunday Celebration by Terry Taylor The Legend of the Easter Egg is in the Holiday and Holy Days section of the Bookstore.
	religioustitles.quizreligious.com /palmsunday (967 words)

	Palm Sunday -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is associated in the Roman Catholic church (and others) with the blessing and procession of palms (leaves of the date palm or twigs from locally available trees).
		Characterized by grim humor and a preoccupation with the hostile forces of science and technology, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., has written numerous novels in which he pleads for human kindness in the present world and in the dehumanized world he depicts as the future.
		In AD 325 the church council of Nicaea decided that it should be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox of March 21.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058134 (869 words)

	KURT VONNEGUT: Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kurt Vonnegut and Edith Lieber, the parents of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., marry in Indianapolis, IN.
		Vonnegut captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division.
		Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, a collection of essays, reviews, and such with connective commentary, is published by Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence.
	www.vonnegutweb.com /vonnegutia/chronology.html (1188 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In an interview with an Australian newspaper [5], Vonnegut made the comment that suicide bombers are "very brave people".
		Contrary to the common assertion that suicide bombers act simply because they hate freedom, Vonnegut described their motivation as being that "They are dying for their own self-respect.
		Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five (adapted by others from Vonnegut's words; introduction by Vonnegut)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vonnegut (2094 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. \| AUTHOR CATALOG
		Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature.
		The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds...
		One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=32175 (524 words)

	American Literature Web Resources: Vonnegut
		Vonnegut was deeply anti-automation, as he feared that with nothing to do man would lose his sense of worth.
		Vonnegut wrote 14 novels, a few short stories, and other literature that is listed above.
		He was truly one of the great American writers and if he were to take the test of time he would surely pass it as his works speak on a deep universal level.
	www.millikin.edu /aci/crow/chronology/vonnegutbio.html (706 words)

	Amazon.com: Timequake: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Vonnegut's novels were never tightly plotted or dizzlingly complex, and ever since The Sirens of Titans there's been less and less plot.
		The premise is that Vonnegut was trying to write a novel about everyone in the world being thrown back ten years and then being forced to relive those ten years.
		The message is always there in Vonnegut: Free will is largely an illusion, life is a meaningless and often cruel series of stochastic events, but that everything connects through the chaos of chance.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425164349?v=glance (1972 words)

	Amazon.com: PALM SUNDAY: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Palm Sunday is exactly what it is advertised - an autobiographical collage.
		Vonnegut's speeches are pretty inconsequential too - he loves the First Amendment and he fought briefly in WWII, basically sums them up.
		In this book Vonnegut touches on all sorts of things, but as many seasoned KV readers will know, it would not be a vintage Vonnegut without mentioning Dresden, Indianapolis, and his son Mark's insanity.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440369061?v=glance (1407 words)

	An Author Unstuck In Time: Kurt Vonnegut Jr
		Vonnegut survived as one of a small group to make it to an underground meat locker during the attack.
		It was this experience of VonnegutÕs that served as the basis for the book Slaughterhouse-Five, which quickly became a best seller and established VonnegutÕs reputation as a writer(Klinkowitz 3).
		Vonnegut begins the book writing in a type of character version of himself as the writer.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/mo&pomo/vonnegut (1707 words)

	The Infography about Kurt Vonnegut (1922- )
		Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction.
		Chaos Theory and the Interpretation of Literary Texts: The Case of Kurt Vonnegut.
		Forever Pursuing Genesis: The Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.
	www.infography.com /content/260364084160.html (125 words)

	PAL: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 - ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kurt Vonnegut The Gospel from Outer Space (Or, Yes We Have No Nirvanas).
		"Kurt Vonnegut and the Myths and Symbols of Meaning." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 24.4 (Wint 1982): 429-47.
		Nadeau, Robert L. "Physics and Metaphysics in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.." Mosaic 13.2 (1980): 37-47.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/vonnegut.html (438 words)

	Pindeldyboz: Palm Sunday with Kurt Vonnegut by Claudia Fletcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pindeldyboz: Palm Sunday with Kurt Vonnegut by Claudia Fletcher
		The sermon was given by Kurt Vonnegut who said he didn't believe in God but felt surely there must be something.
		And Vonnegut went home too and put his sermon in a book of short pieces and called it Palm Sunday.
	www.pindeldyboz.com /cfvonnegut.htm (534 words)

	JOHN DINSMORE, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS AND SELECTED ART
		NOTICE to members of the Vonnegut Granfalloon who also surf on the Web: There is a news group at alt.books.kurt-vonnegut, in case you haven't found it already.
		A Festschrift compiled by Jill Krementz to honor Kurt Vonnegut on the occasion of his 60th birthday, November 11, 1982, and distributed privately to guests and friends.
		Humorous homage to Kurt Vonnegut, originally intended for publication in the limited edition (500cc/none for sale) Festschrift published on the occasion of KV's 60th birthday (November 11, 1982): Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte, 1982).
	www.gonzo.org /jda/catalog.asp?ID=4 (2972 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		LP recording of Kurt Vonnegut reading from Slaughterhouse-Five.
		(VONNEGUT): Vonnegut in America: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut.
		A volume of essays that trace Vonnegut’s life from his early childhood to his international recognition as a major novelist.
	www.redsnapperbooks.com /CAT16BD.html (5614 words)

	The Vonnegut Zone - Palm Sunday: An Autobiogarphical Collage by Kurt Vonnegut
		The First Amendment- Includes a letter to the head of a school in Drake, ND which burned K's books, "Dear Mr.
		Roots- "An Account of the Ancestry of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., by a Friend of His Family"- a formal essay by John G. Rauch of Indianapolis
		In the Capital of the World- "Palm Sunday" - sermon delivered at St. Clement's Church in NYC
	www.geocities.com /aquamarine1438/ps.html (446 words)

	Kevin Schofield's Weblog
		I find that the most unbelievable part of the book, just simply because he is saying it through words that are written so well.
		I have the same trouble with Kurt Vonnegut and his self-deprecating style.
		I'm about 80% through reading Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, then next in the queue is Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg.
	radio.weblogs.com /0133184/2005/01/08.html (888 words)

	Humor and Social Satire Novels
		The characters are all dragged together in a myriad plot about Ice Nine, with the existence of radiation and plutonium this is the direction that science fiction took into serious literature.
		The various references to god in many Kurt Vonnegut novels show the true idea of novel.
		This was the book that made me want to be a writer because it's not a novel but rather a look at the authors writing career and includes a lecture he made.
	www3.sympatico.ca /ptimusk/bookhumor.html (396 words)

	DC.01-24-97
		The notion of TSICHEBZBHODDism just came to me one day as I was reading Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday.
		He called himself an atheist, and I thought, That can't be right: someone who loves people (as Kurt says he does) also loves God - whether they admit it or not; anyone who loves God cannot be an atheist.
		I believe that Kurt said this, because, (forgive me, Mr.
	web2.htrigg.smu.edu /~dcwww2/HTMLPages/Spring97/DC.01-24-97/DC.01-24-97-c.say.html (773 words)

	Name That Title Reference And Win Big!
		The Sirens Of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
		Wampeters, Foma, And Grandfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
		If one were to judge by quantity alone, the safe assumption would be with Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
	www.almostcool.org /we/archive/100we.html (1106 words)

	KURT VONNEGUT: His life & work displayed in a site called ''The Vonnegut Web'' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Welcome to the most expansive, yet wholly unauthorized, Kurt Vonnegut site in the cosmos.
		Many of Vonnegut's works are available for immediate delivery.
		The Vonnegut Web was born in 1995 while I was a grad student at Duke University.
	www.vonnegutweb.com (259 words)

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