Comments on More Responses to the Question: What Were You Doing When You Learned Kurt Vonnegut Died?

I saw it on Slog. Very sad. He was an amazing person.

Vonnegut's last book, in 2005, was a collection of biographical essays, "A
Man Without a Country." It concludes his poem "Requiem," which has these closing lines:

When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.

Hi ho.

Thanks "Dogs." Your plagiarism of the New York Times Obit was such brilliance. Bravo. What a great honor bestow upon one of the most brilliant authors of all of the 20th Century. We all should be so lucky.

so it goes.

Adrianne Harun rocks. I used to wait on her everyday. Love that woman.

Sorry, Woof - but I didn't read or access the NYTimes Vonnegut obit; earlier today I found the above item on Vonnegut (via Google), posted way before his death. I can assure you plagiarism (as a retired journalist) is not my style. So who should I credit with the knowledge that Vonnegut referred to his one-time son-in-law Geraldo Rivera as a "scumbag"? Yes - and using "so it goes" is somewhat unoriginal as well.

I was in my postal vehicle, getting ready to deliver some mail after my lunch. I was listening to the Ed Schultz show and wishing something else was on.

Hearing about Kurt's death just made me sad, knowing that I might never get to hear another word from this tremendous, hilarious spirit. He doesn't believe in heaven, though I kind of hope he's wrong. Kurt Vonnegut didn't just make me want to be a writer, he's the guy that made it possible for me to even conceive that I could. Before Vonnegut, I thought all writers wrote prolifically about sunsets and deep emotional truths, but after Vonnegut (A.V.) I discovered that writing can be as crazy and as wacky as you want it to be.

God bless you, Kurt. May your next journey be as lovely as the one just left. I'll never forget you, and I hope no else will either.