R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
14My favourite author. A great man, with a great legacy of work.
This is a sad day.
This is a sad day.
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
15i really like this from the NY Times article:
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
somebody help me. i can't help myself.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
16El Protoolio wrote:So it goes.
i thought this will be the second post in this thread.
what i way to start a new day, he was one of my favorite writers. he was 84 and (i think) had a good life but still, it's a very sad news. i loved the bitter spirit of faith in the human kind that his books were filled with.
edit: could someone post the qoute from the begining of slaugherhouse five about lot's wife being turned into a pillar of salt? it's one of my favorute quotes, but i can't find online and i don't own this book in english.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
17How sad can it be? All good things must come to an end.
We should view his death as a chance to celebrate his long and productive life.
Sad would have been if he died at age 40, or burned out, withdrew from public life, and stopped producing, as celebrated authors are prone to do.
I'd also like to take this chance to give Mr. Vonnegut mad props for demonstrating that you can be a hard-drinking, chain-smoking sunovabitch and still live to a ripe old age.
We should view his death as a chance to celebrate his long and productive life.
Sad would have been if he died at age 40, or burned out, withdrew from public life, and stopped producing, as celebrated authors are prone to do.
I'd also like to take this chance to give Mr. Vonnegut mad props for demonstrating that you can be a hard-drinking, chain-smoking sunovabitch and still live to a ripe old age.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
18I met him briefly once. It was at a book signing in Indianapolis and I got several of my books autographed by him. He was so intense. So intense in real life. He had a very intimidating presence about him.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
19Kurt Vonnegut wrote:I looked through the Gideon Bible in my motel room for tales of great destruction. The sun was risen upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zo-ar, I read. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
So it goes.
Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them.
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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