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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Timequake was a strugglefor him to write because he had saidit was gonna be his last book...

[chuckling] [David Ulin]
Timequake was a struggle
for him to write because he had said
it was gonna be his last book that he was gonna retire, so I think he didn’t want to
end his career on a kind of half-assed resign note

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[David Ulin] Timequake was a struggle for him to write
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because he had said it was gonna be his last book
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that he was gonna retire,
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so I think he didn’t want to end his career on a kind of
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half-assed resign note.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
01:39:26
Uploaded
May 07, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
9.14 Pictures,Whyaduck Productions

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Movie Summary

Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it.
Basically, the timequake is, at — - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
Basically, the timequake is, at —
Where the universe resets ten years, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:10
Where the universe resets ten years,
I remember him telling me back in the, uh, early ’90s - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
I remember him telling me back in the, uh, early ’90s
I’m, uh, writing stuff I don’t like. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
I’m, uh, writing stuff I don’t like.
I had a book scheduled to be published, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
I had a book scheduled to be published,
[David Ulin] He had finished - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:13
[David Ulin] He had finished
So he went in and, you know, he had a better idea - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
So he went in and, you know, he had a better idea
[Bob Weide] And when he finally sat down and wrote - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
[Bob Weide] And when he finally sat down and wrote
So you’d have a passage from the body of the story - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:11
So you’d have a passage from the body of the story
[Gregory Sumner] Vonnegut finished Timequake, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
[Gregory Sumner] Vonnegut finished Timequake,
They had an opening at the Borders flagship store. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
They had an opening at the Borders flagship store.
Very interesting to me how he continually kind of thought, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
Very interesting to me how he continually kind of thought,
I actually have an idea for one more book. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
I actually have an idea for one more book.
[laughter] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:11
[laughter]
[woman] Mr. Vonnegut, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
[woman] Mr. Vonnegut,
[Jerome Klinkowitz] Vonnegut shows that - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
[Jerome Klinkowitz] Vonnegut shows that
The point is not the end, it’s the journey. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
The point is not the end, it’s the journey.
[narrator reading] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:12
[narrator reading]
[narrator] “They were Robert Weide, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:13
[narrator] “They were Robert Weide,
Yeah, finding myself in a Vonnegut book - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
Yeah, finding myself in a Vonnegut book