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R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:42 am
by Mr Chimp_Archive
minkthinking wrote:benadrian wrote:So it goes...
Ben Adrian
Ben!!!!
I have met you before in the past. I used to live with amber and carly and jon harmon in indianapolis.
what's up, man?
Well played, well played.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:01 am
by RFF_Archive
From a Chicago Tribune story on his life and work ( I believe from one of his books of essays):
"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
"I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that."
So simple. So beautiful.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:03 am
by kerble_Archive
Mr. Chimp wrote:I am very thankful that I got into his works as early as I did. It's one of the benchmark blessings of life, to have been provided such humor and bent perspectives and joy despite sorrow.
I as well got to meet him and shake his hand and say "Thank you so very much."
All of the previously mentioned books, indeed all of Vonnegut's works are most valuable reads, but I hold a particular personal fondness for the Breakfast of Champions / Timequake dyad.
The former was one I read in 7th grade, mostly picked at random for the title. The latter is Vonnegut's own full circle with Kilgore Trout, his last fiction novel, and was released directly after I got to greet him.
Damn. Balls. Damn.
Mr. Jimp!
I pulled
Breakfast of Champions off my parents' shelf in maybe the seventh or eighth grade. it was the first one I'd read.
re:the meet and greet--
did you meet him @ university of Chicago when he was being interviewed around
Timequake? I was there, too! I assume you also have a signed copy of this novel?
so same!
Faiz
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:10 am
by benadrian_Archive
Mr. Chimp wrote:minkthinking wrote:benadrian wrote:So it goes...
Ben Adrian
Ben!!!!
I have met you before in the past. I used to live with amber and carly and jon harmon in indianapolis.
what's up, man?
Well played, well played.
Maybe it's becasue it's early, but I'm lost after what Mr. Chimp said.
Ben
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:19 am
by oyrgawd_Archive
Once, drunk and pissing next to a guy in the bathroom of a bar, I commented on the Vonnegut book poking out of the guy's jacket pocket. He then told me, as we peed, about meeting Vonnegut at a book signing a few years before.
Two things:
1) Vonnegut was leering at his sister
2) Vonnegut told him that
Dr. Seuss and
Klaus Barbie died on the same day, and that to him, the near-simultaneous deaths of someone so good and someone so bad suggested there was some kind of math to the universe, something was being kept even.
I've always remembered that and thought it was kind of beautiful.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:26 am
by areopagite_Archive
my favorite so far is Galapagos. i love how it is written sortof backwards- where you know the end from the very start.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:29 am
by Mr Chimp_Archive
kerble wrote:Mr. Chimp wrote:I am very thankful that I got into his works as early as I did. It's one of the benchmark blessings of life, to have been provided such humor and bent perspectives and joy despite sorrow.
I as well got to meet him and shake his hand and say "Thank you so very much."
All of the previously mentioned books, indeed all of Vonnegut's works are most valuable reads, but I hold a particular personal fondness for the Breakfast of Champions / Timequake dyad.
The former was one I read in 7th grade, mostly picked at random for the title. The latter is Vonnegut's own full circle with Kilgore Trout, his last fiction novel, and was released directly after I got to greet him.
Damn. Balls. Damn.
Mr. Jimp!
I pulled
Breakfast of Champions off my parents' shelf in maybe the seventh or eighth grade. it was the first one I'd read.
re:the meet and greet--
did you meet him @ university of Chicago when he was being interviewed around
Timequake? I was there, too! I assume you also have a signed copy of this novel?
so same!
Faiz
We talked about this, freak. Oh yeah there was drinking involved.
No I was actually at a talk he gave at the University of Chicago on the 50th Anniversary of Hiroshima. A talk that is referenced in the first few pages of
Timequake, another personal point of minor unexplainable pride.
so same - .5 !
benadrian wrote:Mr. Chimp wrote:minkthinking wrote:benadrian wrote:So it goes...
Ben Adrian
Ben!!!!
I have met you before in the past. I used to live with amber and carly and jon harmon in indianapolis.
what's up, man?
Well played, well played.
Maybe it's becasue it's early, but I'm lost after what Mr. Chimp said.
Ben
Trying to not be a dick to a new person, s'all.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:00 pm
by kerble_Archive
Mr. Chimp wrote:kerble wrote:Mr. Chimp wrote:I am very thankful that I got into his works as early as I did. It's one of the benchmark blessings of life, to have been provided such humor and bent perspectives and joy despite sorrow.
I as well got to meet him and shake his hand and say "Thank you so very much."
All of the previously mentioned books, indeed all of Vonnegut's works are most valuable reads, but I hold a particular personal fondness for the Breakfast of Champions / Timequake dyad.
The former was one I read in 7th grade, mostly picked at random for the title. The latter is Vonnegut's own full circle with Kilgore Trout, his last fiction novel, and was released directly after I got to greet him.
Damn. Balls. Damn.
Mr. Jimp!
I pulled
Breakfast of Champions off my parents' shelf in maybe the seventh or eighth grade. it was the first one I'd read.
re:the meet and greet--
did you meet him @ university of Chicago when he was being interviewed around
Timequake? I was there, too! I assume you also have a signed copy of this novel?
so same!
Faiz
We talked about this, freak. Oh yeah there was drinking involved.
man.
I say the same shit over and over and over again.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:26 pm
by GypsumFantastic_Archive
Oh bloody hell....... Farewell Kurt
I was only talking about his books last night to someone and my desire to read some more of his work and re-read others. I watched the film version of Slaughter House 5 the day before that and thought it was rather good.
R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:40 pm
by Mark Lansing_Archive
Man, this makes me sad. Cat's Cradle was one of the books that helped me survive high school, and I still love an awful lot of his other stuff, especially Mother Night, Jailbird and Slaughterhouse Five. A truly original and inspired writer, and a man with fine principles, to boot. Rest In Peace, Mr. Vonnegut.