Kurt Vonnegut Dead After a Fall!!

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:13 pm

Tragic news - I am absolutely gutted (you could say, vonnegutted)!!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/vonneg ... 38011.html

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:45 am

I've lost touch with Vonnegut's latest work, but I'm still a big fan of his older books like The Sirens Of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the collection of short stories Welcome To The Monkey House.

RIP

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:40 am

He was truly an icon. RIP.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:46 am

Lucky Jon Stewart for snagging that interview with him a while back for The Daily Show. I guess I just thought he might never die, but alas, we all will one day.

RIP

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:43 pm

Rolling Stone has created a Slaughterhouse-5 playlist in his honor, and everybody's favorite EC song is #5.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... n-the-sky/

He has said many times that he never wanted to live this long, and was hoping his number would come up soon. And it wasn't the Pall Malls that did him in.

The world is a poorer place today.

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:40 pm

He was the voice of my college days back in the late seventies and followed his stuff sporadically after that.

Slaughterhouse-Five was the defining novel of a generation.

Kurt Vonnegut - Unstuck in Time!

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:45 pm

mood swung wrote:He has said many times that he never wanted to live this long, and was hoping his number would come up soon. And it wasn't the Pall Malls that did him in.

The world is a poorer place today.

well said.

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:28 pm

migdd wrote:Kurt Vonnegut - Unstuck in Time!

Or maybe he has taken up permanent residence on Trafalmador.

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:59 am

At first I was going to chastize you all for making a mockery out of his death. But I guess in a way, Vonnegut probably would have wanted it that way.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:24 am

He's up in Heaven now. With Isaac Asimov.

http://www.vonnegutweb.com/archives/arc_nice.html
in case you didn't get the joke.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:08 am

BlueChair wrote:At first I was going to chastize you all for making a mockery out of his death. But I guess in a way, Vonnegut probably would have wanted it that way.

It's chastise, not chastize!

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:01 am

BlueChair wrote:At first I was going to chastize you all for making a mockery out of his death. But I guess in a way, Vonnegut probably would have wanted it that way.

Well, to cite the article to which I linked:

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"I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded eyes and unruly hair made him seem to be in existential pain, once told a gathering of psychiatrists.
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I was genuinely gutted by his death as he was probably the first writer that made reading, which had been a real chore during my school years, a pleasure for me.