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Writer Kurt Vonnegut passes at the age of 84
Gonna miss you, man...

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.

So it goes.

RIP

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt" -SH5


'So it goes....'

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!"

"Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly,
Man gotta sit and think 'Why, why, why?'
Fish gotta sleep, bird gotta land,
Man gotta tell himself he understand..."

From The Calypsos Of Bokonen

"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."

I too discovered his work in HS. I quickly went out and devoured more of his writings. He will be missed.

Jason, love your Personal Quote! I've been saying that for decades!