vonnegut’s sister
by theuglyearring
INTERVIEWER
What were your sister’s dreams like?
VONNEGUT
She wanted to live like a member of The Swiss Family Robinson, with impossibly friendly animals in impossibly congenial isolation. Her oldest son, Jim, has been a goat farmer on a mountaintop in Jamaica for the past eight years. No telephone. No electricity.
image: A mother and daughter plant a garden in DeKalb County in the 1940′s
(TN State Library and Archives)
kurt vonnegut interview: here
that sounds like heaven to me.
♥♥
the likeness of mr. vonnegut is painted on an ancient brick building downtown indianapolis. i just walked past it the other day…
he loved his sister.
my favorite vonnegut quote:
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
ah, yes. yes. yes.