All the things I never got to ask him... This makes me so sad. I need to go read the article; I hope the NY Times did him justice, and I'll be curious to see what others have to say about him in the coming weeks.
Sad. He was substance and texture to my literary senses. As a youth, my father turned me on to him and we would often talk about his writings. I feel like writing tonight...
From his last appearance on The Daily Show I knew it wouldn't be long. First, Joseph Heller and now Kurt Vonnegut. The literary heroes of my youth are now gone.
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
Interesting, because he wrote an article for the Rolling Stone last fall decrying everything, and saying this was the end times. It was his end times, apparently. *sigh* I loved this writer. I'm glad he existed.
He was 84, so I guess he wasn't too young to die. But I'm certainly too young for him to die. I still need his perspective, and to be reminded of the humanist principles he doggedly fought for in his writing. I put up with too much bullshit, and reading him always helped me find ways to say to hell with it.
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All the things I never got to ask him... This makes me so sad. I need to go read the article; I hope the NY Times did him justice, and I'll be curious to see what others have to say about him in the coming weeks.
Posted by L | April 11, 2007 8:38 PMoh no. i dont know what to say.
Posted by billypilgrim | April 11, 2007 8:38 PMso it goes, i guess.
Sad. He was substance and texture to my literary senses. As a youth, my father turned me on to him and we would often talk about his writings. I feel like writing tonight...
Posted by Paul Torres | April 11, 2007 8:44 PMStill overrated.
Posted by you'renotputtingthatinyourbrainareyou | April 11, 2007 8:50 PMdamn. I was hoping that somehow he might actually be immortal.
Posted by gnossos | April 11, 2007 8:57 PMFrom his last appearance on The Daily Show I knew it wouldn't be long. First, Joseph Heller and now Kurt Vonnegut. The literary heroes of my youth are now gone.
Posted by elswinger | April 11, 2007 9:01 PMThe poem excerpt at the bottom of that NYTimes obit is extra depressing...
Posted by griffincat | April 11, 2007 9:14 PMBoth he and Molly Ivins deserved to see the end of the Bush Administration. May they haunt him from the grave.
Posted by DOUG. | April 11, 2007 9:20 PMTiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
Book of Bokonon
Posted by Kush | April 11, 2007 9:25 PMAw FUCK!
Posted by COMTE | April 11, 2007 9:25 PM"Profound pessimism"? That may very well be, but he inspired me like nobody else in the world. May he rest peacefully.
Posted by franksnack | April 11, 2007 9:32 PM#8 Doug ... I agree. so it goes.
Posted by brad | April 11, 2007 9:47 PMFUCK
Posted by Chris | April 11, 2007 10:03 PMInteresting, because he wrote an article for the Rolling Stone last fall decrying everything, and saying this was the end times. It was his end times, apparently. *sigh* I loved this writer. I'm glad he existed.
Posted by treacle | April 11, 2007 10:26 PMHe was 84, so I guess he wasn't too young to die. But I'm certainly too young for him to die. I still need his perspective, and to be reminded of the humanist principles he doggedly fought for in his writing. I put up with too much bullshit, and reading him always helped me find ways to say to hell with it.
Posted by Alphonse | April 12, 2007 11:11 AMGod Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut.
My world feels a little off kilter today.
Posted by Westenera | April 12, 2007 12:56 PMI sincerely hope that his epitaph is the one he wrote for himself:
"The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."
Kurt was the best this world had to offer.
So it goes.
Posted by Jeff | April 12, 2007 1:24 PM#4, so glad you decided to share. Does that make you feel important? Or smarter? Or in some way more "edgy"? God you're a selfish asshole.
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