Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 1922-2007
RIP
A sad, sad day.
posted by dan @ 9:37 AM
Thursday, April 12, 2007
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here's the New York Times write up- it's decent...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?hp
man, he will be missed.
He was greatness... Did any of you guys hear the Tock Tick song (excerpts from Slaughterhouse 5 put in jazzy techno setting) that Vonnegut made in collaboration with Simon Heselev? I heard it on NPR a number of years back and purchased it. You can get it at http://www.walllizardmusic.com/
He was greatness... I'll never forget how much I laughed when I first saw his over-sized asterisk used as an asshole. Equal parts funny and serious, he was my kind of writer.
He'll always be my favorite.
Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody good cry.
So it goes.
what would life have been like without him?
unbelievable. it was and is a pleasure.
Yesterday a coworker sent me this passage from Vonnegut. She thought maybe it was from _Man Without a Country_, but I'm not certain. Nevertheless, it seems appropriate:
"Do you know what a Humanist is? I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that functionless capacity. We Humanists try to behave well without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.
We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and at one point I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could have said to a group of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in Heaven now." That's my favorite joke."
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