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Encyclopedia > Slapstick (book)

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. Image File history File links Slapstick. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ...


The book was adapted into the 1982 film Slapstick of Another Kind. Slapstick of Another Kind is a 1984 film based on the novel called Slapstick or Lonesome No More written by Kurt Vonnegut. ...

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

It is concerned with the life story of Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain. Dr. Swain lives in the ruins of the Empire State Building with his pregnant granddaughter, Melody, and her lover, Isadore. Dr. Swain is a nearly 7 foot tall man who, in close physical contact with his twin Eliza, forms a vastly powerful and creative intelligence. This intelligence goes on to create, amongst other things, a plan to end loneliness in America through the creation of vast extended families. Under the plan, all citizens would be provided with a fanciful middle names, paired with numbers. Everyone with the same name would be cousins, and everyone with the same name and number would be siblings. Armed with this idea and the slogan, "Lonesome No More," Dr. Swain wins election to the Presidency, and devotes the waning energies of the Federal government towards the implementation of the plan. In the meantime, Western civilization is nearing collapse as oil runs out, and the Chinese are making vast leaps forward by miniaturizing themselves and training groups of hundreds to think as one. The Empire State Building, a 102-story contemporary Art Deco style building in New York City, was designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and finished in 1931. ...


Throughout the book, Wilbur claims that his sister Eliza is the more intelligent of the two, but no one realizes that because she can't write. The conceit is that Wilbur and Eliza are two halves of the same brain -- Wilbur is the left brain: logical, rational, able to communicate; while Eliza is the right brain: creative, emotional, but unable to communicate effectively. Human brain viewed from above, showing cerebral hemispheres. ... Human brain viewed from above, showing cerebral hemispheres. ...


Often surreal, the novel was written shortly after the death of the author's sister, and seems to be a bizarre meditation on the nature of their closeness. Written in an almost free associative style, the book lacks the structural intricacies of Vonnegut's earlier works. A cow standing on a pole. ...


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Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ...

Novels:
Player Piano (1952) | The Sirens of Titan (1959) | Mother Night (1961) | Cat's Cradle (1963)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965)
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969)
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday (1973)
Slapstick or Lonesome No More (1976)
Jailbird (1979) | Deadeye Dick (1982) | Galápagos (1985)
Bluebeard (1988) | Hocus Pocus (1990) | Timequake (1996) The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. ... The Sirens of Titan (1959) is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Mother Night is a novel first published in 1961 and written by the American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Cats Cradle (ISBN 038533348X) is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... God Bless You, Mr. ... Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Jailbird is Kurt Vonneguts 1979 fictional novel about a man recently released from a low security prison. ... Deadeye Dick is a 1982 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... The novel Galápagos is Kurt Vonneguts look at evolution, first published in 1985. ... Kurt Vonneguts Bluebeard was written in 1988 and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. ... Hocus Pocus is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Timequake is a semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ...


Short story collections:
Canary in a Cathouse (1961) | Welcome to the Monkey House | Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) Canary in a Cathouse is a collection of twelve short stories by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1961. ... Welcome to the Monkey House is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Bagombo Snuff Box is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. ...

Collected essays:
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons | Palm Sunday, An Autobiographical Collage (1981) | Fates Worse than Death, An Autobiographical Collage (1990) | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (2001) | A Man Without a Country (2005) Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a collection of essays, reviews, short travel accounts, and human interest stories written by Kurt Vonnegut from c. ... Palm Sunday is a 1981 collection of short stories, speeches, essays, letters, and other previously unpublished works by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Fates Worse than Death subtitled An Autobiographical Collage, is a 1990 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a collection of short interviews written by Vonnegut and first broadcast on NPR. The text of these interviews makes up the content of . ... A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. ...


Plays:
Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five (adapted by others from Vonnegut's words; introduction by Vonnegut) | Make Up Your Mind | Miss Temptation | L'Histoire du Soldat Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Between Time and Timbuktu is a television adaptation of Kurt Vonneguts science fiction novels and stories, and the title of a book containing the script of the broadcast. ... Histoire du soldat (sometimes written Lhistoire du soldat; translated as The Soldiers Tale or A Soldiers Tale) is a 1918 theatrical work to be read, played, and danced (lue, jouée et dansée) set to music by Igor Stravinsky. ...


Film adaptations:
Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Slaughterhouse-Five | Slapstick of Another Kind | Who Am I This Time? | Harrison Bergeron | Mother Night | Breakfast of Champions Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Slaughterhouse-Five is a film adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name. ... Slapstick of Another Kind is a 1984 film based on the novel called Slapstick or Lonesome No More written by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Who Am I This Time? is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut in the 1950s. ... Harrison Bergeron is a dystopian science fiction short story written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1961. ... Mother Night is a 1996 film based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut of the same name. ... Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Slapstick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (422 words)
Slapstick is also common in animated cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes.
Slapstick comedy has not escaped negative attention, though its lengthy presence in performance history and obviously fictitious nature often inures it from the censorious efforts aimed at video games and action films.
Indeed, the uninterrupted modern presence of slapstick comedy--running in film from Buster Keaton to Mel Brooks to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber and Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson--suggests it shall remain a part of the comedic landscape.
Slapstick (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (391 words)
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut.
Throughout the book, Wilbur claims that his sister Eliza is the more intelligent of the two, but no one realizes that because she can't write.
Often surreal, the novel was written shortly after the death of the author's sister, and seems to be a bizarre meditation on the nature of their closeness.
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