Nobody Beats Vonnegut
dennis grace
amazing at mail.utexas.edu
Sun Jun 1 14:17:25 CDT 1997
Henry pondered:
>Was I having a bad dream while driving home last night from seeing a
>seriocomic production of Ibsen's Ghosts, or did I really hear Kurt
>Vonnegut in a commercial touting The Wiz's credit card?
Prolly so. I saw his brush stached curly round visage beaming back at me
from the glass teat in a series of stylish camera cuts that could only have
been a commercial. As per usual, my TV-viewing lobes were then in PowerSave
mode, so I didn't notice what he was hawking.
What's next? John Barth selling shorline property? Don DeLillo selling
anti-terrorist insurance?
dgg
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Dennis Grace
University of Texas at Austin
English Department
Recovering Medievalist
"Oh God comma I abhor self-consciousness." --JB
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