this is a vonnegut, kurt vonnegut timeline. f you would allow me i would like to read the quote at the top of this beautiful painting, which was created by the artist chris king and by a vonnegut scholar named rodney allen. both of these individuals live in louisiana. and the quote reads, all moments pass, present and future always have existed, always will exist. we can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the rocky mountains for instance. they can see how permanent all the moments are. it is just an illusion we have here on earth that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. and something that is unique about our timeline is we actually start on the right side and read to the left rather than the left side and read to the right. one thing we wanted to mention about this quote, we hope that vonnegut would know that, while he may think that -- may have thought that once a moment is gone it is gone forever, we like to think that the moment of kurt vonnegut will live on forever here at the v

kurt vonnegut always brought in his midwestern accuse and often wrote about indiana and indianapolis ecifically. if i may read a ," many people ask me why should this vonnegut library be here in indianapolis. i have many different answers. then i found this great one that said all of my jokes are indianapolis. all of my attitudes are indianapolis. my adenoids our indianapolis. if i ever separate myself from indianapolis i would be out of business. what people like about me is indianapolis. so we take that as a green light to go ahead and establish the vonnegut library here in indianapolis. we have an art gallery, museum room, reading room, a gift shop, and i would like to share details about these with you today. this is the first vonnegut timeline. if you would allow me i would like to read a quote from the top of this beautiful painting which was created by the artist chris cain and by a vonnegut scholar named rodney allen. both of these individuals live in louisiana. it reads all moments past, present, and future always have existed, always we will exist. the trough and the dorians

may think that once the moment is gone it is gone forever, we like to think that the moment of kurt vonnegut will live on forever here at the vonnegut library. he went to cornell university. he was studying chemistry. he didn't plan to go into architecture like his father but he did think she would move into a spy career and discovered it cornell he wasn't very much interested in doing that. so he enlisted in the army during world war ii and i would like to point out a moment here on the timeline it's important in the life of kurt vonnegut and that is 1944. vonnegut is dying from an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills, he enters combat in europe and is captured by germans in belgium during the battle of the bulge. soon he is writing in a boxcar with other american pows to dresden, a supposedly quote cosi fan german city," unlikely to be bombed. so kristen was a beautiful cultural city that was not a military target. as he road on a train he was able to view this city and then he was placed in a house where the rest of the prisoners of war were held. over here we have what we call the dres

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vonnegut library. we have a reading room, a gift shop and a bookstore. this is a kurt timeline. i want to read the quote at the top of this beautiful painting which was created by the artist chris king and by a vonnegut scholar named rodney alan. the quote readses, "all moments, past, present, and future always have existed, always will exist. we can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the rocky mountains for instance. they can see how permanent all the moments are. it's just an illusion here on earth that once a moment's gone, it's gone forever." something unique about our timeline is we actually start on the right side and move to the left rather than the left side and move to the right. one thing we wanted to mention about this quote. we hope that vonnegut would know that while he may think that or may have thought that once a moment is gone it's gone forever, we like to think that the moment of kurt vonnegut lives on forever here at the library. he went to cornell university. he was studying chemistry. he did not plan to go into architec

. >> what did kurt vonnegut die from? >> he collapsed, he fell down the steps of his new york city home, and he went into a coma and never came out of that coma. .. they actually both shared a first friend who vote -- wrote the introduction for the last book that came out. these two pieces of art, the first on the occasion of kurt vonnegut's birthday in 2003, and the second was created when he found out he had died. that was in 2007. we are in the front of the kurt vonnegut library. we have kurt vonnegut's typewriter that was used and was donated to us by his daughter. he wrote many of his more familiar books in the 1970s. we are happy to have this typewriter. he was not a fan of high-technology and he did not use a computer. he learned to use the typewriter to his dying day. he liked to work in his home. an office chair and a coffee table. he was slumped over his typewriter. kurt vonnegut would go out into the world every day. he talks about how he learned you can buy postage stamps over the internet and he thought that

we are in the front of the kurt vonnegut library in the gallery room. we have kurt vonnegut's typewriter that leaves used in the 1970s. this was donated to us by his daughter, nanny. he wrote many of his more familiar books during the 1970s and we are happy to have this typewriter. he was not a fan of high technology and he did not use a computer. he preferred to use a typewriter to his dying day. he liked to work in his home. on an office chair and a coffee table. he would slump over his typewriter. vonnegut would go out into the world every day. he talks about how he had learned that you can buy postage stamps over the internet, and he just thought that was horrible because then you know, if he chose that route he would not have the everyday experience of going to the post office. and those everyday experiences and the people he encountered during his daily walks were the basis for some of his stories. .. >> i thain his work is timeless. >> i was a resident in pediatrics and at children's hospital in pittsburgh the late 1970's. at that time every week

vonnegut library book that came out, but these two pieces of art, the first on the occasion of kurt vonnegut's birthday was a gift to vonnegut, and then the second was created when he found out that vonnegut had died, and that was 2007. we are in the front of the kurt vonnegut library room. this is the typewriter used in the 1970s. this was donated to us by his daughter nanny. he wrote many of his more familiar books during the 1970s. we are happy to have this typewriter. he was not a fan of high technology and he did not use a computer. he preferred to use the typewriter through his dying day. he liked to work in his home on an office chair and a coffee table. he would slump over his typewriter. he, vonnegut would go out into the world every day. he talks about how he learned you could buy postage stamps over the internet, and he just thought that was horrible because then, you know, if he chose that route, he would not have the every day experience of going to the post office, and those every day experiences and the people he encountered during his daily wawbs were the basis for some of his

which is taken from a wonderful line from kurt vonnegut's book "cat's cradle" where he says peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god. there's this element of serendipity, of kismet, in our best travels. i sort of wanted to use the wheel to make that happen. >> where it stops is where you go in the show. and the stopping points are things like the kindness of strangers, or what else? what are some of the other points at which the wheel might stop? >> it can stop at fool, it can stop at the place called the map is not the territory, theater of the absurd, the ugly american, meals of misfortune. there's 30 stops altogether. and this was one of the big questions at the beginning. are we going to make each of the stops on the wheel a specific story or a specific place? what i decided to do was make each one kind of a theme. for each place the wheel stops there's three or four stories. >> let's see an example of one of these stories. this is the point where the wheel stops there? the example we're going to be? >> it's a stop called in a dry, dry place. >> in a dry, dry plac