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July 05, 2004
“Big Apple” in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Just before Charles Gillett's campaign revived "Big Apple" in the 1970s, there is one important citation. The New York-Historical Society liked it enough to put it on its web page.
From Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969; Delta Trade Paperbacks 1999), pg. 265:
"You've been time-traveling again. I can always tell."
"Um."
"Where did you go this time? It wasn't the war. I can tell that, too."
"New York."
"The Big Apple."
"Hm?"
"That's what they used to call New York."
"Oh."
From Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969; Delta Trade Paperbacks 1999), pg. 265:
"You've been time-traveling again. I can always tell."
"Um."
"Where did you go this time? It wasn't the war. I can tell that, too."
"New York."
"The Big Apple."
"Hm?"
"That's what they used to call New York."
"Oh."