“Requiem for a Dreamer”
By Kurt Vonnegut
In These Times
15 October 2004 [online]
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1351/
Editor’s note: What follows is a conversation between Kurt Vonnegut and
out-of-print science fiction writer Kilgore Trout. It was to be their last.
Trout committed suicide by drinking Drano at midnight on October 15 in
Cohoes, New York, after a female psychic using tarot cards predicted that
the environmental calamity George W. Bush would once again be elected
president of the most powerful nation on the planet by a five-to-four
decision of the Supreme Court, which included “100 per-cent of the black
vote.”
—André