Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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TIMEQUAKE

by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and Studied

biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War

he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany,

witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an

experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse 5. He is

the author of thirteen other novels, a collection of stories and three

non-fiction books. He lives in New York City.

BY KURT VONNEGUT

Player Piano

The Sirens of Titan

Mother Night

Cat's Cradle

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Welcome to the Monkey House

Slaughterhouse-Five

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Breakfast of Champions

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons

Slapstick

Jailbird

Palm Sunday

Deadeye Dick

Galápagos

Bluebeard

Hocus Pocus

Fates Worse Than Death

Timequake

Bagombo Snuff Box

Kurt Vonnegut

TIMEQUAKE

Published by Vintage 1998

4 6 8 10 9 7 5

The right of Kurt Vonnegut to be identified as the author of

this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the

Published by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons,

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This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by

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otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in

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condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

First published in Great Britain by

Jonathan Cape 1997

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In memory of Seymour Lawrence,

a romantic and great publisher

of curious tales told with ink

on bleached and flattened wood pulp

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

PROLOGUE

Ernest Hemingway in 1952 published in Life magazine a long short story called The Old Man

and the Sea. It was about a Cuban fisherman who hadn't caught anything for eighty-four days.

The Cuban hooked an enormous marlin. He killed it and lashed it alongside his little boat. Before

he could get it to shore, though, sharks bit off all the meat on the skeleton.

I was living in Barnstable Village on Cape Cod when the story appeared. I asked a neighboring

commercial fisherman what he thought of it. He said the hero was an idiot. He should have

hacked off the best chunks of meat and put them in the bottom of the boat, and left the rest of the

carcass for the sharks.

It could be that the sharks Hemingway had in mind were critics who hadn't much liked his first

novel in ten years, Across the River and into the Trees, published two years earlier. As far as I

know, he never said so. But the marlin could have been that novel.

And then I found myself in the winter of 1996 the creator of a novel which did not work,

which had no point, which had never wanted to be written in the first place. Merde! I had spent

nearly a decade on that ungrateful fish, if you will. It wasn't even fit for shark chum.

I had recently turned seventy-three. My mother made it to fifty-two, my father to seventy-two.

Hemingway almost made it to sixty-two. I had lived too long! What was I to do?

Answer: Fillet the fish. Throw the rest away.

This I did in the summer and autumn of 1996. Yesterday, November 11th of that year, I turned

seventy-four. Seventy-four!

Johannes Brahms quit composing symphonies when he was fifty-five. Enough! My architect

father was sick and tired of architecture when he was fifty-five. Enough! American male

novelists have done their best work by then. Enough! Fifty-five is along time ago for me now.

Have pity!

My great big fish, which stunk so, was entitled Timequake. Let us think of it as Timequake

One. And let us think of this one, a stew made from its best parts mixed with thoughts and

experiences during the past seven months or so, as Timequake Two.

Hokay?

The premise of Timequake One was that a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time

continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during a past decade, for

good or ill, a second time. It was déjà vu that wouldn't quit for ten long years. You couldn't

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TIMEQUAKEbyKurtVonnegutKurtVonnegutwasborninIndianapolisin1922andStudiedbiochemistryatCornellUniversity.DuringtheSecondWorldWarheservedinEuropeand,asaprisonerofwarinGermany,witnessedthedestructionofDresdenbyAlliedbombers,anexperiencewhichinspiredhisclassicnovelSlaughterhouse5.Heistheauthorofthirteen...

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