What's Kurt got to do with it?
As I was running to catch my subway connection this morning, I overhead the briefest snippet of conversation between two women who were exiting the train:
"Oh yeah, she was doing some real Kurt Vonnegut shit to me."
The other woman laughed sharply at that and I smiled as well, but mostly because I had no idea what the hell it meant. I was so perplexed in fact that I couldn't focus on the book I was reading.
Had the woman they were discussing been blaming her bad ideas on some made-up persona like Kilgore Trout? Or refusing to call to let people call her writing science-fiction? Better yet: had her lovemaking caused the woman in the subway to become unstuck in time?
I'd really like to know. Any thoughts?
"Oh yeah, she was doing some real Kurt Vonnegut shit to me."
The other woman laughed sharply at that and I smiled as well, but mostly because I had no idea what the hell it meant. I was so perplexed in fact that I couldn't focus on the book I was reading.
Had the woman they were discussing been blaming her bad ideas on some made-up persona like Kilgore Trout? Or refusing to call to let people call her writing science-fiction? Better yet: had her lovemaking caused the woman in the subway to become unstuck in time?
I'd really like to know. Any thoughts?
