Posted AT 2:28 AM EDT on 11/10/05
The world according to Kurt
NEW YORK — 'I'd get up," mumbles Kurt Vonnegut with curmudgeonly cheer as he greets a lunch companion, "but I'm old."
At 82, and almost a decade past his self-declared date of retirement, age and futility are the primary tropes of any conversation with Vonnegut these days. When this lunch was arranged, just before he hung up the phone, he cracked, "Give me your number, in case I die.
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