Excerpt from Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me and money and anxiety. And time when I got home from the Second World War 23 years ago, I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought too that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money since the subject was so big, but not many words about Dresden came from my mind. Then not enough of them to make a book anyway. And not many words come now either when I have become an old fart with his memories and his pal malls with his sons full grown. I think of how useless the Dresden part of my memory has been and yet how tempting Dresden has been to write about. And I'm reminded of the famous Limerick. My name is Jan Jansen. I work in Wisconsin, I work in a lumber mill there. The people I meet when I walk down the street, they say what's your name? And I say my name is Jan Jansen, I work in Wisconsin and so on to infinity.