Search results for "Kurt von"
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

When young Peter was gone, Dr. Abekian called Joe into his office. He had a directory open on his desk. He explained it. “I was trying to find,” he said, ...
( Category: Satire January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

When Nancy came back from the lunchroom with a warm, fat paper bag, Red stopped her again. “Saaaaaay,” he said, “maybe you’ll grow up to be a nurse, after taking ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

Just about the time that was settled, up the road came Earl Hedlund’s old coupe. Earl got out grinning, and Satan whimpered and got up and licked Earl’s hand. Earl ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

The normal morning workload in the General Company Response Section was about fifteen letters. On the morning that Francine Pefko joined the operation, however, there were only three letters to ...
( Category: Satire January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

The telephone by my bed rang. “This is Larry Whiteman!” “Drop dead, Larry Whiteman!” The clock said two in the morning. “Tell that girl to quit it, do you hear?” ...
( Category: Coloring Books for Grown-Ups January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

On the telephone table in the front hall, Madelaine had taped a list of telephone numbers: the numbers of her office, Bud Stafford—her boss, her lawyer, her broker, her doctor, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

The home and the laboratory of Stanley Karpinsky, industrial chemist, were a single, drafty attic room—a room with the proportions of a shotgun. There were two tiny windows, one in ...
( Category: Coloring Books for Grown-Ups January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

Helmholtz excused himself, and he went to the principal’s office to have a talk with Selma Ritter. The office was actually a suite, consisting of a foyer, a meeting room, ...
( Category: Satire January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Galapagos [Galapagos]

There are still plenty of hallucinators today, people who respond passionately to all sorts of things which aren’t really going on. This could be a legacy from the Kanka-bonos. But ...
( Category: Satire May 17,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Slapstick, Or, Lonesome No More! [Slapstick, Or, Lonesome No More!]

24 I ASSUMED THAT ELIZA had now assaulted my self-respect with every weapon she had. I had somehow survived. Without pride, with a clinical and cynical sort of interest, I ...
( Category: other May 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Kurt von negut [negut, Kurt von]

THE NICE LITTLE PEOPLE It was a hot, dry, glaring July day that made Lowell Swift feel as though every germ and sin in him were being baked out forever. ...
( Category: other May 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 1963-10-15 | Author:Kurt von negut [negut, Kurt von]

66 THE STRONGEST THING THERE IS HE WASN’T DEAD. But he certainly looked dead; except that now and then, in the midst of all that seeming death, he would give ...
( Category: Satire May 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Kurt von negut [negut, Kurt von]

III Josef and Peter yawned again and again, and shivered in the cold twilight of the mountain dawn. Neither had slept, but their bloodshot eyes were quick and bright-looking, impatient, ...
( Category: other May 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-15 | Author:Kurt von negut [negut, Kurt von]

24 A POLYGAMOUS CASANOVA … AFTER SHE GAVE ME the news, I took her into a nearby cafeteria so we could sit down. The ceiling was high. The lights were ...
( Category: other May 9,2022 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-15 | Author:Kurt von negut [negut, Kurt von]

The purpose of it was to kill people by jazzing them with more electricity than their bodies could stand. Dwayne Hoover had seen it twice—once during a tour of the ...
( Category: Satire May 9,2022 )