Wompeters and Grandfaloons (or something like that) contains the test of a speech V gave to the 1970 graduating class of benneton college.... i really liked the speech and want to hear the original spoken by the man himself... i would figure there would be an audio copy of it somewhere but can't find reference to it anywhere... i even emailed the university... does anyone have any idea where i could go to search for such a thing?
Groucho
03-24-04, 12:49 PM
Are you talking about the "Sunscreen" thing? If so, that's an urban legend:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/vonnegut.htm
If you're talking about something else, I apologize.
moorehed
03-25-04, 02:08 PM
nah i believe it was an actual speech... given in 1970. it is in this book:
Looking quickly through a Google-derived list I didn't find an audio file for any of the speeches collected in the 1974 publication "Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons":
However, someone on the newsgroup "alt.books.kurt-vonnegut" might have his/her ear closer to the ground....
Buy: