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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

If someone had toldthe high school me that someday I’d spendseveral nights in the room...

If someone had told
the high school me that someday I’d spend
several nights in the room where Kurt Vonnegut
wrote all those books, I think my head
would have exploded

Full Transcript

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If someone had told the high school me
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that someday I’d spend several nights in the room where
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Kurt Vonnegut wrote all those books,
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I think my head would have exploded.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:52:35
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.
I remember it being just a mess, papers everywhere, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
I remember it being just a mess, papers everywhere,
♪[Muzak] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:22
♪[Muzak]
Your posture’s too good, you know, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
Your posture’s too good, you know,
Also, he’d have his ankles crossed, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
Also, he’d have his ankles crossed,
[clacking] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:12
[clacking]
[typewriter clacking] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
[typewriter clacking]
He took a break once and wanted to sit me down - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
He took a break once and wanted to sit me down
And he said, “As soon as you think life is turning up roses, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
And he said, “As soon as you think life is turning up roses,...
The magazines got knocked out, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
The magazines got knocked out,
[Jerome Klinkowitz] TV is now controlling the entertainment industry, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
[Jerome Klinkowitz] TV is now controlling the entertainment ...
As he put it, television came - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
As he put it, television came
[Jerome Klinkowitz] Vonnegut realizes - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
[Jerome Klinkowitz] Vonnegut realizes
The problem was, he could get an advance for a novel, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:10
The problem was, he could get an advance for a novel,
It pretty quickly disappeared from the literary scene. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
It pretty quickly disappeared from the literary scene.
And then he spends 17 years writing every day - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
And then he spends 17 years writing every day
I think he wrote his best books here - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
I think he wrote his best books here
You could tell. He was always talking about it, an idea. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
You could tell. He was always talking about it, an idea.
Just seeing what my — the chapters in his life, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:11
Just seeing what my — the chapters in his life,
[clicking] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:14
[clicking]
And I thought about it and realized - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
And I thought about it and realized