Fortitude had no funny part. It was a war wound without the scar tissue of laughter.
At the Lilly, the box arrived. Inside: tax forms, grocery lists, a pamphlet on “Radiant Heating,” and one manila envelope labeled “Fortitude — don’t lose, K.”
As Vonnegut himself once wrote in a margin of the Fortitude draft, next to a crossed-out paragraph: “No. Too stiff. Try again. So it goes.”
Mara compared the draft to Vonnegut’s later work. She saw the seeds of Slaughterhouse-Five (the frozen survivor), Mother Night (moral compromise), and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the cost of kindness). But Fortitude lacked what made Vonnegut great: black humor. It was earnest. Bleak. Unbearably sad.
Fortitude had no funny part. It was a war wound without the scar tissue of laughter.
At the Lilly, the box arrived. Inside: tax forms, grocery lists, a pamphlet on “Radiant Heating,” and one manila envelope labeled “Fortitude — don’t lose, K.” fortitude kurt vonnegut pdf
As Vonnegut himself once wrote in a margin of the Fortitude draft, next to a crossed-out paragraph: “No. Too stiff. Try again. So it goes.” Fortitude had no funny part
Mara compared the draft to Vonnegut’s later work. She saw the seeds of Slaughterhouse-Five (the frozen survivor), Mother Night (moral compromise), and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the cost of kindness). But Fortitude lacked what made Vonnegut great: black humor. It was earnest. Bleak. Unbearably sad. the box arrived. Inside: tax forms
