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.”
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
Then Eddie is fired. That night, Eddie hangs himself in his garage. Paul finds the body. Vonnegut’s prose goes cold: “Eddie had shown fortitude after all — the fortitude to finish what the world had started.” As Vonnegut himself once wrote in a margin
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.”
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.”
Then Eddie is fired. That night, Eddie hangs himself in his garage. Paul finds the body. Vonnegut’s prose goes cold: “Eddie had shown fortitude after all — the fortitude to finish what the world had started.”