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Your source story sounds like the story I heard/read Kurt Vonnegut tell,
by detourdog 3y ago
Your source story sounds like the story I heard/read Kurt Vonnegut tell,
- dredmorbius 3y agoAgreed, though I don't believe that's the context I first heard it. I've run across the Vonnegut variant more recently. I don't recall where or when I heard the earlier version for the first time, though I suspect it came up in conversation without attribution. Likely sometime ~1980 -- 1999. That variant may well trace to Vonnegut, though I suspect it had been passed through numerous mouths and ears by the time I heard it.