Dead.
oh no. i dont know what to say.
so 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...
Still overrated.
damn. I was hoping that somehow he might actually be immortal.
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.
The poem excerpt at the bottom of that NYTimes obit is extra depressing...
Both he and Molly Ivins deserved to see the end of the Bush Administration. May they haunt him from the grave.
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.
Book of Bokonon
"Profound pessimism"? That may very well be, but he inspired me like nobody else in the world. May he rest peacefully.
#8 Doug ... I agree. so it goes.
FUCK
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.
I 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.
#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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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.