DAVID BRANCACCIO: There’s a little sweet moment, I’ve got to say, in
a very intense book– your latest– in which you’re heading out the
door and your wife says what are you doing? I think you say– I’m
getting– I’m going to buy an envelope.
KURT VONNEGUT: Yeah.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: What happens then?
KURT VONNEGUT: Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know,
why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in
the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an
envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the
process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some
great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the
thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I
don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart
around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,
what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re
dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we’re not
supposed to dance at all anymore.