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Line 37: − About 1960, an event occurred that has been overlooked by his biographers: The pessimistic agnostic/atheist Vonnegut wrote a Christmas play for a large-circulation ladies journal. This event, and the sincere appreciation it must have received in the form of letters from women assuming he had written it out of a devoted faith, seemed to have a deep effect on him for the rest of his life.+ + +
→Short story writer and aspiring novelist: Specified date of play writing.
In 1959 he published a second dystopian science fiction novel, ''The Sirens of Titan'', which combined intense social commentary in outlandish scientific fantasy milieus.
In 1959 he published a second dystopian science fiction novel, ''The Sirens of Titan'', which combined intense social commentary in outlandish scientific fantasy milieus.
''Mother Night'' was partially inspired by an event that occurred in 1961 that has been overlooked by his biographers: The pessimistic agnostic/atheist Vonnegut wrote a Christmas play for a large-circulation ladies journal. It was after that when he wrote that novel's plot about an American World War II spy's dismay at the outcome of having performed espionage as a propagandist for the Nazis, the plot being a way of carrying out a sort of performative penance toward the contrareity of his atheist beliefs with the Christmas writing assignment he had taken.
The magazine declined to publish the play in Christmas 1961 as Vonnegut had expected but published it the following Christmas instead. But this event, and the sincere appreciation he must have received in the form of letters from women assuming he had written it out of a devoted faith, seemed to have a deep effect on him for the rest of his life.
==Afterwards and religious beliefs==
==Afterwards and religious beliefs==