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Got a problem? Just pick up the phone. It solved them all--and all the same way! A classic Vonnegut story from the pages of Worlds of If magazine!
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Characters/People edit
- Edward K. Wehling, Jr.: A soon-to-be father of triplets faced with a terrible decision; dismayed and desperate; forlorn; "young" in the sense that he is only mid-50's in a world teeming with 200-year-olds
- Young Wheling: Soon-to-be father of triplets waiting in hospital wait room
- Painter: Old, sardonic man painting a mural of a perfect garden in the hospital waiting room
- the painter: man who witnesses the events in the hospital
- Dr. Benjamin Hitz: Hospital's Chief Obstetrician. Very handsome and tall; very famous; pioneer of the chief tool of population control--the "catbox" or Ethical Suicide Studios; callous to others' sense of sanctity for life.
- Leora Duncan: Woman with a mustache that works for the Federal Bureau of Termination
First Sentence edit
Everything was perfectly swell.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Worlds of If Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: January, 1962
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 24
Publisher: Worlds of If Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: January, 1962
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 24
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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