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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, 285 pp., $8.95 A young poet recently described his daily journal as an asterisk-ridden affair. He used an asterisk, it seems, to indicate a passage that was not necessarily his absolute or final statement on a particular subject. Another volume, just published, would benefit from a similar method of notation. It’s called Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons and its author, ostensibly a novelist, is really the world-famous public relations man, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, 285 pp., $8.95 A young poet recently described his daily journal as an asterisk-ridden affair. He used an asterisk, it seems, to indicate a passage that was not necessarily his absolute or final statement on a particular subject. Another volume, just published, would benefit from a similar method of notation. It’s called Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons and its author, ostensibly a novelist, is really the world-famous public relations man, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.