Timequake

Somewhere in there was an awful scene,

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.

He told us that one reason he and his friends wanted to start the commune and learn to “live off the land” in a simple way was that “we want to be the last people on earth.” Vonnegut said, “Isn’t that kind of a stuck-up kind of thing to want to be?” In the way he spoke and the way he wrote, Vonnegut was always coming up with the plain-spoken words

All persons, places, and events in this book are real. Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author.

bobbing up-and-down, up-and-down.