Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Gothampc
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#1Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:34pmThe literary community has lost an original voice.
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Perfectly Marvelous
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#2re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:37pm
Very sad news, indeed.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#3re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:38pm
I'm so sad. He lived in my neighborhood and would always sit in the park where I walk Miss Holly. He knew her by name and would let her sniff his fingers and then rub her head. I always called him "Mr. Vonnegut." I was hoping to see him again when the weather got nice.
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#4re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:39pm
Heartbreaking.
A true original.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#5re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:46pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?hp
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#6re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:05amHe was an alchemic linguist, able to weave gold out of ordinary words.
#7re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:09amWhat awful news. RIP.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#9re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:26am
He was supposed to come home to Indiana for the culmination of a yearlong community wide celebration of his work and give a speech. He will be missed.
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Updated On: 4/12/07 at 12:26 AM
#10re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:30amOMG . . . I love Kurt Vonnegut and his books. Slaughterhouse Five is my second favorite book of all time. **Cries** He will be terribly missed!
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#11re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:44am
this is so sad
my cousin and i were just talking about him on sunday...
Less is more
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Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
#13re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 1:11amOh my God. Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most original, creative literary forces in America. RIP.
#14re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 1:34am
I have always been a tremendous fan of his work, it was brilliant, insightful, and damn funny.
One of my few regrets in life is that I won't have the opportunity to sit and listen to the man rant.
If you haven't go read
Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse 5 tonight. Forget that, go read them all.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#15re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 2:16amThis man was a literary genius, and he will definitely be missed. Breakfast of Champions is one of my all-time favourite books.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#16re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 2:48am
Ugh.
Just got into the most pointless arguement.
ME: As a creative writing major, you should know that Kurt Vonnegut died today...
WOMAN: Oh f***ing well. Do you know how many people die every day?
ME: (Stunned) And how many of those people wrote SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?
WOMAN: And how does THAT make him a better person?
MAN #1: Well, Kurt Vonnegut WAS possibly one of the greatest satirists of all time...
WOMAN: Who cares?
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#17re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 3:10amOne of my favorites. May have to dig something out and re read it in tribute.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#18re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 3:12am
When I told my brother he said "Oh, he was in the movie 'Back to School' with Rodney Dangerfield."
It was actually a bit funny. Ah well though, Mr. Vonnegut will be sorely missed!
yr ronin,
joey
joey
#19re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 7:32amVery sad news indeed. Rest in Peace.
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Conan O'Brien
#20re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 9:35am
Cruel, I know a few people like that. They don't value anything or anyone, so they go through their pointless lives completely miserable.
Nothing has any value, unless you value it.
What a sad, pathetic little woman.
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#21re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 9:37amSo rare the writer who can make me laugh and think at the same time. Slaughterhouse Five was one of the most original and thought-provoking novels ever. Thanks, Mr. Vonnegut, for everything.
WOSQ
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#22re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 9:55am
Let us not forget that Kurt Vonnegut wrote a play, "Happy Birthday, Wanda June" that was produced in 1970-71 and ran a season with Kevin McCarthy, William Hickey and Marsha Mason.
If you want to pay a real tribute to him, see if you can cobble together some monologues from the script. The lead character is based on Hemingway.
Wanda June is almost a peripheral character. She is a 10 year old currently residing in heaven because she was hit by an ice cream truck on her birthday. Her not-picked-up birthday cake was the only one at the bakery.
By the way everyone in heaven, including Jesus Christ, plays shuffleboard.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#23re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 10:08amI despised his books, but am very sorry to hear of his death.
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#24re: Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
Posted: 4/12/07 at 11:39amone of the most brilliant writers of our time. Few could match his originality....This is truly a loss to the world.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
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