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Why doesn’t he wrestle with me like that? [chuckles]
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Why doesn’t he wrestle with melike that? He said to us sometimes, “Please let me offthe...

Why doesn’t he wrestle with me
like that? [chuckles] [Mark Vonnegut]
He said to us sometimes, “Please let me off
the father hook,” which is not a good thing
to say to your children, but… [laughs] nobody’s perfect

Full Transcript

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Why doesn’t he wrestle with me like that? [chuckles]
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[Mark Vonnegut] He said to us sometimes,
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“Please let me off the father hook,”
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which is not a good thing to say to your children,
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but… [laughs]
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nobody’s perfect.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
01:00:19
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.
She sort of trapped him in there - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
She sort of trapped him in there
[Jim Adams] Jane was always washing clothes, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
[Jim Adams] Jane was always washing clothes,
He’d come out, he’d make a sandwich, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
He’d come out, he’d make a sandwich,
And he would be smoking and, you know, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
And he would be smoking and, you know,
And we’d have these wonderful music times - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
And we’d have these wonderful music times
- He’d be doing poetry and — - He’d be right there, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
- He’d be doing poetry and — - He’d be right there,
[Jim Adams] The next day, it’d just all turn to shit, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:15
[Jim Adams] The next day, it’d just all turn to shit,
And therefore, when he’s going from the study to the kitchen, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
And therefore, when he’s going from the study to the kitchen...
[typewriter clacking] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
[typewriter clacking]
And it just amazed me that this man lived downstairs. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
And it just amazed me that this man lived downstairs.
It’s pretty remarkable that by the mid 1960s, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:10
It’s pretty remarkable that by the mid 1960s,
Cat’s Cradle, which made him - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
Cat’s Cradle, which made him
But Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
But Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan
[man] He really emerged as a writer - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
[man] He really emerged as a writer
Who cares? None of this stuff is — - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
Who cares? None of this stuff is —
It’s disappearing before it even hits the stands, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
It’s disappearing before it even hits the stands,
It had never occurred to me that - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
It had never occurred to me that
I loved him for being fantastic and creating religions - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
I loved him for being fantastic and creating religions
I mean, she could not believe how great these were, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
I mean, she could not believe how great these were,
[Mark Vonnegut] Jane would do anything to help Kurt along, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
[Mark Vonnegut] Jane would do anything to help Kurt along,