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> He concludes that "Shakespeare was a poor storyteller".

He certainly does not, or, if he says those words, he's being deliberately facetious.

He says: “I have in fact told you why this is respected as a masterpiece. We are so seldom told the truth. In Hamlet, Shakespeare tells us we don’t know enough about life to know what the good news is and what the bad news is, and we respond to that. Thank you, Bill.”



> He certainly does not, or, if he says those words, he's being deliberately facetious.

It's irony. That is Vonnegut for you. His point is of course that Shakespeare isn't a poor storyteller, so it must be the model which is insufficient.




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