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“The Shape of Stories” originated as the basis for Kurt Vonnegut’s master thesis in anthropology at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s. It was rejected as the thesis committee felt Vonnegut’s theory was too simplistic; He felt that the committee thought his theory "looked like too much fun". Vonnegut would go on to leave ABD (All But Dissertation) until the university accepted his 1963 novel “Cat's Cradle” in lieu of his master's thesis.
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A collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing advice titled “Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style” would be posthumously released in 2019. I fully, 10000% recommend that if you read it even if you are only vaguely interested in writing or literature
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And now our feature presentation: “Between Time and Timbuktu” (1971) directed by Fred Barzyk (https://youtu.be/HnltZeOvZsw?si=dL87Xi0eDqccX1uT) for the National Educational Television and PBS’s anthology series “NET Playhouse”. Apologies in advance RE: the video quality this TV film has never been released on home video
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“Between Time and Timbuktu” (1971) is based on the writing and philosophy of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The screenplay was written by David Odell of “The Muppet Show” fame with contributions from comedy duo Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding and Vonnegut himself. The screenplay combined with images from the TV film were released as a 1972 novelization. You can read that for free here (https://archive.org/details/betweentimetimbu00vonn).
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Dr. Dani Sanchez

As some of y’all know, I’m a HUGE #KurtVonnegut fan so not too long ago I made a big YouTube playlist of all of his books, plays, musicals and significant interviews and talks,etc. that I could find. You can check that our here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfsFdh_KLLM4D2KAR_K7cOZo&si=DM2IFkMlcEkjQWhS)
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“Ice-Nine”, of course, is the symbol of the destructive nature of misused technology (eg. Atomic and other human made weapons, etc.) from Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s 1963 postmodern satire “Cat’s Cradle”. You can read that and a few more of his major works here (https://archive.org/details/novelsstories1960000vonn)
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And both the character Harrison Bergeron and the Vonnegut concept of Handicaps come from Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron”. You can read the story in his 1968 story collection “Welcome to the Monkey House” here (https://archive.org/details/welcometomonkeyh0000unse) /listen to it here (https://youtu.be/PsGEHJ5_XeY?si=_TVXpv6hpGUnyNnV) OR you can watch the 1995 film adaptation starrring Sean Astin here (https://youtu.be/82GB1g2xNh0?si=Od6RF5mj2GoMm6rG)
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There’s also a 2009 short film titled “2081” that’s based on “Harrison Bergeron” and features a memorable ballet scene. You can watch that here (https://youtu.be/dEgOuZzjI8o?si=mM8T5WDPEAPtYNuz)
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