Sealed Slaughterhouse Five read by Kurt Vonnegut Jr Vinyl Record Album LP Spoken Word Abridged hotsell TC 1376 Caedmon

Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade A Duty Dance with Death is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. The album is the author reading this work in an abridged form. From the back cover: “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Kurt Vonnegut recently told an interviewer, “is a war story by an amnesiac. All I know about the bombing of Dresden in World War Two, the greatest massacre in European history, is that I was there - without being massacred. I forget what that was like."

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The Slaughterhouse Five hotsell or The Children's Crusade A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut

Vinyl: Factory Sealed
Cover: Factory Sealed. Some shelf wear. Shrink torn or cut in a few areas.
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Asked if that event had a lot to do with the shape of his character, whatever his character was these days, he said, “No. The amazing adventurers which shaped me were over by the time I was nine years old, I'm sure. God only knows what they were. They're harder to remember than Dresden. I've tried to recover some of those memories recently, and I've come up with this much, anyway: the big house where I was a little kid was empty a lot of the time, except for me and a black cook named Ida Young. I understand now something I didn't understand a year ago—that I received the basic education on which all subsequent educations were built from Ida Young. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't know as much about the Bible and human slavery and really poor people as I do."

His father and grandfather were Indiana architects. “That big, seemingly so empty house of my childhood," he went on, “was designed by my father, and I would hear him or my mother call it a dream house now and then. They lost it during the Great Depression. After the Second World War, father built another house with many personal touches, and my parents called that one a dream house, too. Various good and bad things happened in those houses. I remember them spookily, because they gave me the queer feeling that I wasn't merely in a dwelling, but that I was inhabiting my parents' dreams.

“And it was so often the case in that first dream house that the only other inhabitant was another outsider–who was Ida Young." When it was pointed out to him that he had strayed far from the subject of Dresden, he replied impatiently that he was no more concerned about Dresden than he was about the most recent Super Bowl Game or the Second Battle of the Marne. “It's all over, whatever it was. I happened, and can't be undone. I don't think about it, unless somebody makes me think about it. What is there to think about it, except that man, for one reason or another, can be a very ferocious animal indeed? So what else is new?

"I will tell you this, though:” he went on, “man isn't a naturally ferocious animal. He isn't a naturally any sort of animal. What he becomes depends on his early education. I am a pacifist, and I've made my children pacifists, too. But that isn't because of Dresden. It's because of the humane education I received from Ida Young." - Philboyd Sludge

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