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In a previously unpublished story, Kurt Vonnegut bellies up to the bar
- growt 17y agoSPOILERS AHEAD: Maybe Vonnegut is over my head but throwing a cat over a wall that scratches someone later and showing pictures of people to known paranoiacs with the intention to get them killed seem like two very different things.
- silentbicycle 17y agoSpoiler alert, dude.
- growt 17y agosorry didn't see that. fixed it.
- silentbicycle 17y agoIt's too late now, but using rot13 works well for that sort of thing.
- gwern 17y agoThe legal tactic is the thing. The paranoiac can't be trusted when they say they were given the photo, and even if they fingered the dude, he's crazy too.
- hubb 17y agothis is the 2nd posthumous short story collection of his released, i think. the first was one was a far cry from 'bagambo snuff box' and 'welcome to the monkey house', but it offered an interesting window into his development as a writer. i'll definitely pick this up when it's released
- Confusion 17y agoIt rather reminds me of the rather absurd/sinister stories by Roald Dahl.
- jcl 17y agoIt reminds me of Neil Gaiman's short story "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale", which also features a killer and would-be client meeting in a bar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Get_Them_For_You_Wholesale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Get_Them_For_You_Wholesa...