Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

The way he described the story of Cinderella made me smile!!

What a genius lecturer.

Like this if your in a comp 2 class

Soon as he said, "we're gonna start way down here", I knew what story it was.

Some of his works were brilliant. Short story recommendation is Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Some hard-core prophecy. And so it goes.

Learned recently he was in the same POW camp as my grandfather... his book Slaughterhouse Five was inspired by that time.

Wow, this video has been wondering what the shape of the story of my life is

Great video! What’s the name of that work by Bach played at the end? EDIT: Bach’s Goldberg variation 1

He is at the tope of my favorite authors

What's better than satire

INSIGNIFICANCE

my god. the very fundamental structure of narrative is a trope in itself.

What a shame to exclude Vonnegut's final summation of his chalkboard story shape lecture, which I saw live at Syracuse University. He draws a straight horizontal line; Hamlet. If you know, you know.

Where are the tragedies?

Can someone give me five annotations with the timestamps recorded (it’s for a school assignment)

A great writer and thinker. A Christopher Hitchens in another body

When was this recorded?

Huge thanks to Alex for recommending this video!

Why are everybody laughing, he said nothing funny, it's odd

"MAKE ME YOUNG AGAIN"

We call it "person in hole" these days for our course, but it's still such a useful way of giving a visual to something abstract.

World gettin warmer we going the other way

Kurt would've had a hell of a time talking to ChatGPT.

He would drive Nabokov crazy with his lecture lmao

These kind are no longer manufactured. Your legacy lives on 🪄

Wow! What treasure to have this lecture preserved. I didn't realize he had such a sense of humor.

I don´t get why people laugh, for me is getting a new theory for stories´ frameworks.

What a genius he was! Brilliant!

Notice how she doesn't go to her lowest limit as the residue/reminiscent residual of the max high picked her up a level higher than her lowest.

Do bells go ring or boing?

Phone is device called pixel 5. Made by Google or Motorola?

Sailboat sex story

few people in the world who believe their convictions so strongly that there philosophy sounds like stand up. so smart, so funny

Pure genius

I absolutely love this clip - I must have watched it 20 times and it still never fails to make me grin!

"exactly.."

Munko

I was fortunate enough to attend one of his speaking engagements. I can’t imagine his take on these dark times… he is sorely missed.

I listened to this for a voice sample, trying to figure out his parts in Ken Burns' The Civil War. I was surprised - I didn't realize he was a Hoosier, and it answered my question. I stayed for the essay, and I'm glad I did.

Man's explaining stuff I wouldn't have understood in the most humorous way possible

Do you happen to know which year this lecture was delivered?

This is Kurt Vonnegut? I imagine some pale white man with blond hair.

The best kind of presentation lecture I've ever seen

any one from prakhar ke pravachan

"Oh godammit" I died

Maybe he'll write the sunscreen song, maybe he won't