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Apr. 12th, 2007 10:35 amKurt Vonnegut, Jr., is dead. It did nothing wonderful for my mood for this to be the first thing i saw upon waking this morning.
I discovered Vonnegut when i was 21 and in the span of a year or so literally poured through all of his works to date at that point. I was touched deeply by Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle, and even enjoyed somewhat apocryphal books like Slapstick and Deadeye Dick. But the one that haunted me the most was The Sirens of Titan. It was in many ways his most absurd book, his most cynical, and yet the most plaintive as well.
So, perhaps i will choose to believe that Vonnegut is not dead; he's merely gone into a chronosynclastic infundibulum and will return when Earth passes through it again.
I discovered Vonnegut when i was 21 and in the span of a year or so literally poured through all of his works to date at that point. I was touched deeply by Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle, and even enjoyed somewhat apocryphal books like Slapstick and Deadeye Dick. But the one that haunted me the most was The Sirens of Titan. It was in many ways his most absurd book, his most cynical, and yet the most plaintive as well.
So, perhaps i will choose to believe that Vonnegut is not dead; he's merely gone into a chronosynclastic infundibulum and will return when Earth passes through it again.
