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We laugh in self-defense.”  \n—The Atlantic Monthly  \n“AN UNIMITATIVE AND INIMITABLE SOCIAL SATIRIST.”  \n—Harper’s Magazine  \n“A MEDICINE MAN, CONJURING UP FANTASIES TO WARN THE WORLD.”  \n—The Charlotte Observer  \n“A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION.”  \n—Chicago Sun-Times  \n“A LAUGHING PROPHET OF DOOM.”  \n—The New York Times  \nOTHER BOOKS BY KURT VONNEGUT  \nA Man Without a Country Armageddon in Retrospect Bagombo Snuʃ Box Between Time and Timbuktu Bluebeard  \nBreakfast of Champions Canary in a Cat House Cat’s Cradle  \nDeadeye Dick  \nFates Worse Than Death Galápagos  \nGod Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Happy Birthday, Wanda June Hocus Pocus  \nJailbird  \nLike Shaking Hands with God (with Lee Stringer) Mother Night  \nPalm Sunday Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Slapstick Slaughterhouse-Five Timequake  \nWampeters, Foma & Granfalloons  \nWelcome to the Monkey House  \nFor Mary O’Hare and Gerhard Mutter  \nThe cattle are lowing,  \nThe Baby awakes.  \nBut the little Lord Jesus  \nNo crying He makes.  \n1  \nALL THIS HAPPENED, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn’t his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I’ve changed all the names.  \nI really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground.  \nI went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O’Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at ɹrst, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn’t much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden ɹrestorm. So it goes.  \nHe sent O’Hare a postcard at Christmastime, and here is what it said:  \n“I wish you and your family also as to your friend Merry Christmas and a happy New Year and I hope that we’ll meet again  \nin a world of peace and freedom in the taxi cab if the accident will.”  \nI like that very much: “If the accident will.”  \nI would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time. When I got home from the Second World War twenty-three years ago, I thought it would be easy forme to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big.  \nBut not many words about Dresden came from my mind then—not enough of them to make a book, anyway. And not many words come now, either, when I have become an old fart with his memories and his Pall Malls, with his sons full grown.  \nI think of how useless the Dresden part of my memory has been, and yet how tempting Dresden has been to write about, and Iam reminded of the famous limerick:  \nThere was a young man from Stamboul,  \nWho soliloquized thus to his tool:  \n“You took all my wealth  \nAnd you ruined my health,  \nAnd now you won’t pee, you old fool.”  \nAnd I’m reminded, too, of the song that goes:  \nMy name is Yon Yonson,  \nI work in Wisconsin,  \nI work in a lumbermill there.  \nThe people I meet when I walk down the street,  \nThey say,“What’s your name?”  \nAnd I say, My name is Yon Yonson,  \nI work in Wisconsin  ”  \nAnd so on to i","cbCaisdmdk2xTGQu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisdmdk2xTGQu","pdf",1140211,181,"English","# Narrative framing\n## Dresden recollections and changed names\n## Return to Dresden with Guggenheim money\n## Meeting a cab driver and the postcard\n## Regret, writing, and the limits of memory","[{\"question\":\"What does the opening claim about the events in the novel?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator says “all this happened, more or less,” emphasizing that many war details are pretty much true while names are changed.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the narrator return to Dresden, and what does he do there?\",\"answer\":\"He goes back in 1967 with Guggenheim money, traveling with Bernard V. 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