Kurt Vonnegut on Writing


It’s Friday, the economy sucks. So we’d thought we’d try and cheer you all up by posting a speech Kurt Vonnegut made in 2002 at Albion College that just found its way onto YouTube.

Some of it was from his last book, “A Man Without a Country,” and perhaps the best semi-colon joke ever written. “Don’t use semicolons. They stand for absolutely nothing. They are transvestite hermaphrodites. They are just a way of showing off. To show that you have been to college.”

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