View Full Version : RIP Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Clyde Puckett
04-12-2007, 12:30 AM
Just heard on channel 4 news.
This one hits home for me. He graduated in the first class at Howe High School in Indianapolis with my mother. I remember many times going to his family's hardware business with my grandfather to buy supplies for his business.
Great american writer. My favorites are Jailbird and Dead Eye Dick.
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover your high school class is running the country" - Kurt Vonnegut
Sir Mawn
04-12-2007, 12:46 AM
RIP... one of my favorites.
Anaximines
04-12-2007, 12:49 AM
a real innovator, RIP
ak1971
04-12-2007, 12:52 AM
I just read that...wow. One of my favorites too.
jutang
04-12-2007, 12:53 AM
One of the greats passes away.
So it goes...
RhymesayersDU
04-12-2007, 12:54 AM
A buddy of mine in HS was a huge fan. Got me to read one of his books, which I remember was good. Can't remember the title though.
RIP
Blueflame
04-12-2007, 01:32 AM
Sad news... RIP
Kid A
04-12-2007, 01:45 AM
http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/images/everythingwasbeautiful.jpg
One of the best ever. RIP Kurt.
Natedogg
04-12-2007, 05:25 AM
http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/images/everythingwasbeautiful.jpg
One of the best ever. RIP Kurt.
Quoted for truth. Sad to see the great ones go.
watermock
04-12-2007, 05:32 AM
I could understand Kant, Shopenhaur and Descartes, but Vonnegut baffled me. Regardless, some people did. RIP
BroncoInferno
04-12-2007, 08:46 AM
RIP to a great American writer.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we best be careful what we pretend to be."
Rohirrim
04-12-2007, 09:01 AM
God bless you, Eliot Rosewater and farewell Kilgore Trout. Thanks for the laughs.
alkemical
04-12-2007, 09:24 AM
Rip
TheReverend
04-12-2007, 12:07 PM
Breakfast of Champion's, Cat's Cradle and Sirens of Titans... my three favorite books... farewell to the greatest "robot" that ever held a pen.
telluride
04-12-2007, 01:03 PM
I was walking up Third Avenue in Manhattan last year, at about 48th. Nice day, sunny, not too crowded. Suddenly Vonnegut came wheeling out of an office building -- his agent's offices, I think -- and stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk, obviously wondering if he should head uptown or downtown. I walked past him without breaking stride and said, brightly, "Good Morning, Kurt!" Vonnegut replied, "Good Morning." Then I said, "Go left," and kept walking.
I'm sure he stood there for a while, wondering who the hell I was.
gunns
04-12-2007, 02:14 PM
"The 51st state is the state of denial and we've all visited it."
He was truly the best and the reason he baffles you Mock is that he was a rational thinker.
Chris
04-12-2007, 03:16 PM
He was amazing and we learnt more about the long term suffering from war then ever before with "Slaughterhouse 5".
Sadly, perhaps not enough.
telluride
04-12-2007, 04:58 PM
I see that my eulogy post came in as number 777.
Something to that, I think.
Hogan11
04-12-2007, 07:38 PM
So it goes......R.I.P. :(