Writer Kurt Vonnegut passes at the age of 84
Gonna miss you, man...
Goodbye, Kurt...
Goodbye, Kurt...
Nothing will get you dead quicker than being deadly serious about yourself.
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jingle_jangle
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Oh, man, another voice of humor and high-contrast reason moves on.
I remember discovering his work in high school and being entertained and expanded at the same time.
I remember feeling out of sorts during a long stay in Brazil--English language books were hard to find and the ones I found were boring and expensive.
Then, in a crummy little used bookstore in Botafogo, Rio, I picked up a first edition paperback of "Sirens of Titan", which I'd never read and which was written while he was still employed as a copywriter for General Electric in Schenectady...price was less than a dollar.
And I was once again connected to the body of his work, through a book written in the mid-Fifties, and stylistically was the same as anything and everything he was to write, straight through to the end.
RIP, Kurt.
I remember discovering his work in high school and being entertained and expanded at the same time.
I remember feeling out of sorts during a long stay in Brazil--English language books were hard to find and the ones I found were boring and expensive.
Then, in a crummy little used bookstore in Botafogo, Rio, I picked up a first edition paperback of "Sirens of Titan", which I'd never read and which was written while he was still employed as a copywriter for General Electric in Schenectady...price was less than a dollar.
And I was once again connected to the body of his work, through a book written in the mid-Fifties, and stylistically was the same as anything and everything he was to write, straight through to the end.
RIP, Kurt.
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
― Kurt Vonnegut
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I want to be pithy and it isn't in me right now. I'm just glad he lived to a ripe old age. I'll miss him, but he left us a lot to think about, along with many deeply uncomfortable belly laughs.
Perhaps he simply fell into his own chronosynclastic infundibulum.
"**** 'em all, boys, **** 'em all!"
Perhaps he simply fell into his own chronosynclastic infundibulum.
"**** 'em all, boys, **** 'em all!"
Here is where I hide my music:
http://www.soundclick.com/MarkKaufman
http://www.soundclick.com/MarkKaufman
