"Kurt Vonnegut - Deadeye Dick" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vonnegut Kurt)

as I have described it.

There really was a Frank Duveneck, and I in fact own a painting by him, 'Head of a Young Boy'. It is a
treasure left to me by my father. I used to think it was a portrait of my brother Bernard, it looks so much
like him.

And there really was an Adolf Hitler, who studied art in Vienna before the First World War, and whose
finest picture may in fact have been 'The Minorite Church of Vienna'.

***



I will explain the main symbols in this book. There is an unappreciated, empty arts centre in the shape of
a sphere. This is my head as my sixtieth birthday beckons to me.

There is a neutron bomb explosion in a populated area. This is the disappearance of so many people I
cared about in Indianapolis when I was starting out to be a writer. Indianapolis is there, but the people are
gone.

Haiti is New York City, where I live now.

The neutered pharmacist who tells the tale is my declining sexuality. The crime he committed in
childhood is all the bad things I have done.

***



This is fiction, not history, so it should not be used as a reference book. I say, for example, that the United
States Ambassador to Austria-Hungary at the outbreak of the First World War was Henry Clowes, of
Ohio. The actual ambassador at that time was Frederic Courtland Penfield of Connecticut.



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I also say that a neutron bomb is a sort of magic wand, which kills people instantly, but which leaves their
property unharmed. This is a fantasy borrowed from enthusiasts for a Third World War. A real neutron
bomb, detonated in a populated area, would cause a lot more suffering and destruction than I have
described.

I have also misrepresented Creole, just as the viewpoint character, Rudy Waltz, learning that French
dialect, might do. I say that it has only one tense тАФ the present. Creole only seems to have that one tense
to a beginner, especially if those speaking it to him know that the present is the easiest tense for him.

Peace.

тАФ K.V.