Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Language: English
Pages: 342
ISBN: 2:00093339
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
their chance,” she said. ‘I 28 WHO A M I THIS TIME? “Most of ’em couldn’t stand the excitement,’’I said. And I told her I’d been asked to direct another play. I asked if she and Harry would be available for the cast. She gave me a big smile and said, “Who are we this time?” (1961) 29 WELCOME T O T H E M O N K E Y HOUSE s o P E T E C R O C K E Rthe , sheriff of Barnstable County, whch was the whole of Cape Cod, came into the Federal Ethical Suicide Parlor in Hyannis one May afternoon-and
leave any time he wanted to, right up to the moment he asked for the needle-and he had to ask for the needle. That was the law. Nancy’s art, and the art of every Hostess, was to see that volunteers didn’t leave, to coax and wheedle and flatter them patiently, every step of the way. So Nancy had to sit down there in the booth, to pretend 3s W E L C O M E TO THE M O N K E Y HOUSE to marvel at the fieshness of the yarn the old man told, a story everybody knew, about how J. Edgar Nation happened
husband, madame, has made the decision, not I.” He pressed the button on the stop watch. “You may keep the boy with you until the Colonel has fbmbled all of your lives away. Your move, Colonel. Ten minutes.” “Take his pawn,” Kelly ordered Margaret. She didn’t move. “Margaret! Do you hear me?” “Help her, Colonel, help her,” chided Barzov. Kelly took Margaret by the elbow, led her unresisting to the square where a black pawn stood. Jerry tagged along, keeping his mother between himselfand Kelly.
and will be for some time. Popularly, the “Age of Barnhouse” is said to have begun a year and a half ago, on the day of Operation Brainstorm. That was when dynamopsychism became significant politically. Actually, the phenomenon was discovered in May, 1942, shortly after the professor turned down a direct commission in the Army and enlisted as an artillery private. Like X-rays and vulcanized rubber, dynamopsychism was discovered by accident. From time to time Private Barnhouse was invited to take
rest. We’ll let you know.” So we tried to find another Stella. And there just wasn’t one, not one woman in the club with the dew still on her. “All we’ve got are Blanches,” I said, meaning all we had were faded women who could play the part of Blanche, Stella’s faded sister. “That’s life, I guess-twenty Blanches to one Stella.” “And when you find a Stella,” said Doris, “it turns out she doesn’t know what love is.” Doris and I decided there was one last thing we could try. We could get Harry Nash