Kurt Vonnegut Dead

[Jason]

So it goes.

[Jouster]

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.


 

[bruce]

Actually the death of Donald Hamilton upset me more

[Laurie]

Aw, sad. He was 84.

[buffcoat]

"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.

[Chris L]

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

[Omar]

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

[buffcoat]

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.

[kenkwan]

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

[Chris L]

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!)

[Sploops]

I didn't even know he was sick.

[A.M. Thomas]

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