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Showtime presented Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House in 1991, an anthology series that uses this title for the program but does not feature an episode based on this story. Italiancharts.com – The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 12, 2020. The story centres on whether or not a Euphiophone machine can be commercialised, and if so would it be ethical to sell happiness, and what price can you put on it? Klinkowitz, Jerome (1998): Vonnegut in fact. The public spokesman of personal fiction. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press A live-action adaptation of the story, starring Bill Bixby, was a segment of Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love, a 1974 pilot for an anthology TV series. [4] See also [ edit ]

This collection includes all but one of the twelve stories in Vonnegut's previous short story collection Canary in a Cat House, published in 1961. Lindsay, Cam (January 25, 2019). "The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor Passionately Ranks the Band's LPs". Vice . Retrieved July 14, 2020. I've since read six of seven of his books and hoo boy, he's been a real hit and miss. I can see why he is a celebrated author, his prose is solid and he has written many brilliant descriptions and scenes. But several of his books are just personal ramblings that I wish he'd STFU about, like Timequake or Breakfast of Champions. I did like one of his other books, Mother Night. Newman, Adam. "The Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House". Kludge. Archived from the original on December 5, 2003 . Retrieved December 9, 2009. EPICAC" is a short story in the book Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. It was the first story to feature the fictional EPICAC computer later used in Vonnegut's novel Player Piano in 1952. It was published on 25 November 1950, for Collier's Weekly, [1] and reprinted in the February 1983 PC Magazine. [2]Smyers, Daryl (September 3, 2009). "Peter Holmstrom and The Rest of the Dandy Warhols are Men of Their Words". Dallas Observer . Retrieved July 29, 2012. Norwegiancharts.com – The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 12, 2020.

Narrator - mathematician who works on EPICAC during the night shift and wants to marry Pat Kilgallen. He uses EPICAC's poetry to win Pat's hand in marriage.

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My own and the Vonneguts' son Mark's only release by late adolescence was psychotropically-induced dementia! Petterson, Bo (1994): The World according to Kurt Vonnegut. Moral Paradox and Narrative Form. Åbo: Åbo University Press Australiancharts.com – The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 12, 2020. Built for the government, or "The Brass", to solve complex worldly problems, specifically those associated with war, that would otherwise be too difficult for humans to solve The next day the narrator receives an urgent call from his supervisor. He rushes to the room where EPICAC is housed to discover Dr. Von Kleigstadt and a huge group of military men crowded around the remains of EPICAC. During the night, EPICAC destroyed itself, effectively committing suicide because it could not be with the woman it loved. It did, however, print out 500 original love poems as a wedding present for the couple. The narrator now has enough anniversary poems to keep his vow to Pat for centuries to come, and is relieved by this gesture from his friend.

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