> Four different interviews with me were submitted to The Paris Review. These were patched together to form a single interview, which was shown to me. This scheme worked only fairly well, so I called in yet another interviewer to make it all of a piece. I was that person. With utmost tenderness, I interviewed myself.
really good read, here's a snippet of vonnegut's sharp wit re Dresden bombing:<p>---
VONNEGUT<p>I said that only one person on the entire planet benefited from the raid, which must have cost tens of millions of dollars. The raid didn’t shorten the war by half a second, didn’t weaken a German defense or attack anywhere, didn’t free a single person from a death camp. Only one person benefited—not two or five or ten. Just one.<p>INTERVIEWER<p>And who was that?<p>VONNEGUT<p>Me. I got three dollars for each person killed. Imagine that.
What an incredible writer, with this piece just reinforcing it. Vonnegut has expressed more feelings, described the world more clearly, and opened my mind more widely than any other author. I remember reading Slaughterhouse Five (the first time) during high school, then again nearly every year since. His descriptions of and thoughts on Dresden in the book and this interview really show his outlook on the war.