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Page 162
... tell stories . " Prose will kill you if you give it an inch , i.e. , if you try and substitute it for the world . What I am trying to do , through all this murk , is to define certain areas of de- struction " ( p . 112 ) . Pictures ...
... tell stories . " Prose will kill you if you give it an inch , i.e. , if you try and substitute it for the world . What I am trying to do , through all this murk , is to define certain areas of de- struction " ( p . 112 ) . Pictures ...
Page 202
... tell stories , and tell them well , with the exquisite timing which has distinguished Vonnegut's own narratives . Contexts are invented for the springing 5 Kurt Vonnegut , Jailbird . In manuscript at this reading . Published in ...
... tell stories , and tell them well , with the exquisite timing which has distinguished Vonnegut's own narratives . Contexts are invented for the springing 5 Kurt Vonnegut , Jailbird . In manuscript at this reading . Published in ...
Page 229
... tell the truth : The money was spent . I called her Ladyship , I decided to tell her I spent the money on heroin . It had more poet worrisome truth , more artist decay and fashionability . All in blood went his love riding . Imagine ...
... tell the truth : The money was spent . I called her Ladyship , I decided to tell her I spent the money on heroin . It had more poet worrisome truth , more artist decay and fashionability . All in blood went his love riding . Imagine ...
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