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Player Piano
The Sirens of Titan
Canary in a Cathouse
Mother Night
Cat's Cradle
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Welcome to the Monkey House
Slaugtherhouse-Five
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Breakfast of Champions
Wampeter Foma & Granfalloons
 First published in Great Britain 1976
Copyright ┬й 1976 by Kurt Vonnegut


Jonathan Cape Ltd, 30 Bedford Square, London WC1


Grateful acknowledgment is extended to Al Hirschfield,
Who is represented exclusively by The Margo Feiden Galleries,
New York City, for permission to reproduce the illustration
On the dedication page.


British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data


Vonnegut, Kurt
Slapstick, or Lonesome no more?
ISBN 0-224-01432-4
1. Title
823'.9'1F PS3752.05
Printed in Great Britain by litho by The Anchor Press Ltd
And bound by Wm Brendon & Son Ltd
Both of Tiptree, Essex
"Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd . . . "

тАФ ROMEO
 Dedicated to the memory of
Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy
two angels of my time.
 Prologue

THI S is the closest I will ever come to writing
an autobiography. I have called it "Slapstick" because it is grotesque, situational poetry тАФ like