“People LOVE that story.”
May 16, 2011 @ 6:44 pm | Filed under: Links
Via my friend Ellen Weiss, via Dangerous Minds: Kurt Vonnegut gives a 4 1/2 minute talk on the line-graph shapes of stories. (I’d like to hear the rest of his lecture.)
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At 7:13 pm
sarah said:
Priceless! I had no idea he was so funny and brilliant 🙂
At 7:39 pm
Thomas said:
check this video out. another vonnegut classic 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSiMsWY5VBk
At 11:33 am
MelanieB said:
Wonderful He talks just the way he writes.