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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Vonnegut shows that it’s not the final bookthat’s the point, it’s the struggleto write the...

[Jerome Klinkowitz]
Vonnegut shows that it’s not the final book
that’s the point, it’s the struggle
to write the book, and that’s the text

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[Jerome Klinkowitz] Vonnegut shows that
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it’s not the final book that’s the point,
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it’s the struggle to write the book,
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and that’s the text.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
01:41:42
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.
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
The sad thing about Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
The sad thing about Timequake
[answering machine beeps] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
[answering machine beeps]
Uh, Bernie died at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time here, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
Uh, Bernie died at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time here,
[laughing] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:15
[laughing]
[Bob Weide] After Timequake, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
[Bob Weide] After Timequake,
[waves crashing] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
[waves crashing]
When I was a neighbor to Kurt - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
When I was a neighbor to Kurt
And often when I would get up in the morning, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
And often when I would get up in the morning,
Um… waiting for somebody to get up. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
Um… waiting for somebody to get up.
When I asked, “How long have you been here?” - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:16
When I asked, “How long have you been here?”
Well, it’s practically over, thank God, I’m — - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
Well, it’s practically over, thank God, I’m —
There won’t be that much more of — - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
There won’t be that much more of —
[Morley Safer] When Kurt got older and more cranky - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:10
[Morley Safer] When Kurt got older and more cranky
Some of you may know about my class action suit. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
Some of you may know about my class action suit.
It’s, uh — they’re manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
It’s, uh — they’re manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes...
And — [clears throat] I have been chain smoking these - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
And — [clears throat] I have been chain smoking these