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- dha07030, on 06/30/2009, -1/+53So it goes.
- ceredron, on 07/01/2009, -0/+29Some good ***** reporting from Mr. Vonnegut.
- Fishn2, on 07/01/2009, -0/+21Poo-tee-weet?
- premiumballin, on 07/01/2009, -0/+17The world misses him.
- andrewglover87, on 07/01/2009, -1/+9Glad to see futility closet get to the front page. A brilliant, original blog.
- goldenpacker, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7That's the most truthful report I've read in a long time.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -2/+9>>They asked him to write a piece on a racehorse that had jumped the fence at the local track.
>>He fed a page into his typewriter, stared at it for several hours, typed "The horse jumped over the ***** fence" and left.
Brevity is the soul of wit but it is a serious problem when you are paid by the word. - mtoto21, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes." - mikek814, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5this is how I feel about majority of sport writing (same template over and over)
- TobiasParker, on 07/01/2009, -2/+7As an Upstate New Yorker, I love Vonnegut.
- TwistXJ, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Vonnegut is my hero. I'm a strict follower of Bokonism.
- DirtPile, on 07/01/2009, -1/+6*
- kitsua, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4wherever he is, he's laughing his arse off at that.
- Smokeydabear, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Perhaps is actions were a commentary on sports writing.
- mbsuperman, on 07/01/2009, -2/+6ting-a-ling!
- Sornos, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Kurt's up in heaven now.
- kitsua, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4If this isn't nice I don't know what is.
- Groucho88, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5Maybe he was a dick. That doesn't make him any less funny.
- busterbros, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5tl;dr
- Liability, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3
You're ***** kidding me. Now I see why you make the big bucks. - jspegele, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2All they did was write two sentences about a quote from Vonnegut. Not a great example of their brilliance and originality.
- bryanwallace, on 07/01/2009, -2/+4i love this man. he just didn't seem to give an s
- Cole2026, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Vonnegut is truly my hero. Mother Night was a masterpiece of epic proportions and is my favorite by him. I recently read A Man Without A Country, and it was all pure poetry and hit home very close to the heart.
To those who have read Vonnegut, you'll know the hilarity when I say that he is watching us from heaven right now, laughing. :) - diggopolous, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2As a Downstate New Yorker, I love Tugennov.
- thrashcowboy666, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2Being alive is a crock of *****.
- diggopolous, on 07/01/2009, -1/+1Ya sure ya don't mean onanism, after all, this is digg.
- licensedrummer, on 07/01/2009, -5/+4I just used that anecdote as the introduction to a paper about Vonnegut that I turned in earlier today! Maybe I'm unstuck in time like Billy Pilgrim...
- toyouds, on 07/01/2009, -2/+1very good
- Grandest, on 07/01/2009, -2/+1I'm happy to share his birthday.
- TevinC, on 07/01/2009, -14/+4This anecdote just makes him sound like a dick.
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