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Title: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: Jason on April 12, 2007, 03:57:44 AM

So it goes.

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: Jouster on April 12, 2007, 05:02:02 AM

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.


 :'(

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: bruce on April 12, 2007, 06:48:06 AM

Actually the death of Donald Hamilton upset me more

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: Laurie on April 12, 2007, 08:18:20 AM

Aw, sad. He was 84.

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: buffcoat on April 12, 2007, 09:27:01 AM

"My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."


Remember that everyone has something to be proud of.  Hi ho.

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: Chris L on April 12, 2007, 10:11:14 AM

I loved him in Back to School.  Wasn't he a writer, too?

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: Omar on April 12, 2007, 10:17:25 AM

I was a huge fan of those commencement speeches he didn't actually make. 

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: buffcoat on April 12, 2007, 12:15:47 PM

Honestly, the zing-y pop cultural references are enough to keep me coming back to this forum - to make em and to read em.

Then when we exhaust a topic, we move on.  Hoo-ray, Internet.

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: kenkwan on April 12, 2007, 01:36:43 PM

Are we sure he didn't just "take a leak"?

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: Chris L on April 12, 2007, 02:36:35 PM

Actually, today I feel sad and guilty that I haven't read more of his work.  I read Slaughterhouse Five pretty thoroughly in college and loved Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions but other than seeing the odd essay here and there it's been a few years since I've picked up anything by him.  I'll have to stop at the library on the way home. 

Oh well, at least he's with God now.  ;) (EDIT: Oops, mangled the quote. Should've been "in Heaven now."  Told you I should've read him more!)

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: Sploops on April 12, 2007, 03:21:01 PM

I didn't even know he was sick.

Title: Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Post by: A.M. Thomas on April 15, 2007, 11:05:54 PM

Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling.