Kurt Vonnegut on Now

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Just curious if anybody here saw Kurt Vonnegut on PBS’s *Now * last night and what you thought of the interview? I started out being very nervous for him - he seemed so frail and vulnerable and I don’t think he had the easiest time articulating his thoughts - but by the end I felt that his obvious vulnerability somehow added to his message. It made his perennial plea for kindness and humanism somehow that much more powerful. I ended up frankly a bit verklempt. Of course I’m an old fan - hardly objective. Anybody else have similar/different impressions?

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I didn’t see this, but had a similar feeling during his interview on The Daily Show.

BTW, at the end of that interview, he mentioned he had a few other things to say, but they were out of time, so Jon Stewart promised he’d post them on their website. Does anyone know if they were ever posted?

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Yes. I’m pretty sure they’re still there.

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Here, Kurt Vonnegut’s List of Liberal Crap I Never Want to Hear Again.
I didn’t see him on Now, but I also caught him on the Daily Show. That emphysema has really caught up with him. I only just discovered Vonnegut this spring, so I’m behind on my reading. uglybeech, will there be a rerun of that program?

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Thank you!

Classic:

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Thanks for the Comedy Central link. Usually PBS affiliates will air programs several times over the first week they air. But otherwise I haven’t seen Now rerun programs from the past (although they may eventually do that). I checked the Nashville PBS - channel 8 - listings for you and it looks like the last airing was last night at 2:30 a.m. unforunately. If you get another PBS channel you can try checking their listings at www.pbs.org or tv.yahoo.com

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Here, for anyone who’s interested, is the Now web page on Kurt Vonnegut. There are some book excerpts, etc., but I don’t see a transcript or video clip.

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Between that “list of liberal crap” & the tendentious Harrison Bergeron which was required reading for me in High School, I now realise that Vonnegut deserves more disrespect than respect from me. Thank you.

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Good to know. And you’re welcome!