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- washingtonydc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+512so it goes.
- letdowntourist, on 10/12/2007, -18/+239He'd better get more diggs than the god-damn crocodile hunter.
- zeroooooooooooo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+121I think this may be the first time I have ever been upset about a famous person dying.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+79FTA
"To Mr. Vonnegut, the only possible redemption for the madness and apparent meaninglessness of existence was human kindness. The title character in his 1965 novel, “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” summed up his philosophy:
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007) RIP
his Wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
So It Goes - Billiam627, on 10/12/2007, -2/+77This is literally the first time that something in the news has truly upset me, and lately thats saying something. The world lost a genius today.
- otep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+73Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
-- Kurt Vonnegut - captaincanuck76, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74@ washingtonydc
Very clever... and a touching way to remember an amazing author. I discovered Vonnegut the summer after college and his books have left a mark on me. I don't think I can explain to anyone why I enjoyed his work so much. It just clicked with me. - Gavagai80, on 10/12/2007, -0/+67For those lesser fans who haven't read everything:
"We had a memorial service for Asimov a while back, and at one point I said, ‘Isaac is up in Heaven now’. That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. If I should ever die, again God forbid, I hope some of you will say, ‘Kurt's up in Heaven now.’ That's my favorite joke."
- Kurt Vonnegut - loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68Damn. I loved that guy. Read all his books many times over.
I saw him at a book-signing in Palo Alto. The bookstore, hell the whole town, is a no-smoking zone but he was in the store puffing away on his unfiltered Pall Malls.
I'm gonna miss him. - welvis, on 10/12/2007, -8/+58Digg beating CNN to the story by a solid hour right now.
- Machine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48He spoke at my college graduation ceremony. It was the best thing about going to college :)
"Hello. Farewell. Hello. Farewell. Eternally connected. Eternally embracing. Hello. Farewell." - jakefloyd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41One of the greatest (if not the greatest) authors and satirists of the 20th century.
Rest In Peace, Kurt Vonnegut. - Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44Kurt's up in heaven now
ha...ha...ha
ugh - trer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37We're still hearing about Anna Nicole Smith's death almost 2 months after the fact. Mr. Vonnegut gets barely a blurb in the major media news outlets. Such a shame that someone who contributed much more to society passes away barely noticed by the public while someone whose life accomplishment was to get naked and marry an oil tycoon is still shoved in our faces.
- GeneralAntilles, on 10/12/2007, -7/+42He was on the Daily Show barely over a year ago.
- Yokohamalion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35He's not really dead. He's just in a bad state in this particular moment in time.
- svenathon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33I've been reading digg for a long time anonymously. I've never been motivated enough to create an account until now.
I have to go re-read some Vonnegut. Excuse me.
(So it goes.) - hannahmar, on 06/11/2009, -2/+34I cried. I has just finished reading a few of his novels and the man was a genius. His enormous talent and presence will be greatly missed!
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
(I hope they really do put that on his gravestone!) - PaiZuri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/11/kurt-vonnegut-passes-away-at-84/
From a 2003 interview with In These Times::
"I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.” - iamtheinternet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29The saddest thing yet about all this to me is that when I IM'd one of my friends
and told him Kurt Vonnegut died, he replied back "Who?"
Dear god, Kurt, may people remember you better than that. - loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28'Poo-tee-weet?'
- sofaKing812, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30This makes me think of Hunter Thompson too. Whenever my life was feeling dull I could pick up either one of these author's books and it helped brush the dust off my life.
So it goes indeed. - Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27I hope he went out thumbing his nose at the sky.
We are lesser for your passing. - koick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28@captaincanuck76:
The reason they clicked with me is his shear brilliance at making you laugh when he says something insanely tragic and cry with something mundanely blunt. He has no equal. - blankhorizons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25It's a shame, so few writers have had the ability to capture the essence of the current state of humanity over the course of so many years.
- bat-21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26From Back to School:
[after Diane gives Thornton an 'F' for his report, which was actually written by Kurt Vonnegut]
Diane: Whoever *did* write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut!
[cut to Thornton's dorm suite]
Thornton Melon: [on the phone] ... and *another* thing, Vonnegut! I'm gonna stop payment on the cheque!
[Kurt tells him off]
Thornton Melon: ***** me? Hey, Kurt, can you read lips, ****** you*! Next time I'll call Robert Ludlum!
[hangs up] - rampancy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut.
- zzhiwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Not as deep as some of you, but this is my favorite quote of his I ever read.
"The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad." - davewashere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Well, this should make the next "Who is the greatest living writer?" thread a lot more interesting.
RIP, Mr. Vonnegut. - Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here. - TuxNuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I'm not normally one to get choked up over the passing of people I've never met, but this news gave me a lump in my throat. I started reading Vonnegut during my freshman year in high school, and his writing had an incredible impact on me. Truly he'll be missed.
- YesMoreLight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Man if there was someone we really needed it was Kurt Vonnegut.
- bjs0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Ouch. It feels like a close friend is gone forever. Maybe it's true.
I always thought the smokes would do him in, though. G'night, Kurt. - Skafia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I'm right there with ya. I'm fairly devastated by this, and I can't think of another time a famous person's death has caused me to care, well, at all.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Listen: Kurt Vonnegut has come unstuck in time.
This one's for you, Mr. Vonnegut:
*
(the above was an ASCII image of Kurt Vonnegut's *****) - nickdngr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16as a chain smoker, since the age of 11, and someone who has sworn to never file suit against big tobacco b/c smoking is my choice, this is my favorite vonnegut quote:
"Here’s the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only 12 years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown and Williamson have promised to kill me.
But I am now 82. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats."
i smoke kamel reds exclusively.
HI HO! - ploke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I am right there too. I am at the library writing a paper at 12:30 and this is crushing me. Such a great thinker and writer.
This is bothering me more than Douglas Adams. Wow. - carkmouch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The saddest part is that the News will spend little if no time mourning his death, yet they spend over a month going on about Anna Nicole Smith.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Breakfast of Champions, one of my top five favorite books of all time. I hope he is like 2Pac and has a bunch of "old recordings" that they release.
- dandanar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait...
To find out for certain what my wampeter was...
And who was in my karass...
And all the good things our karass did for you.
Amen." - andrew15, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Mr. Vonnegut you will truly be missed. Slaughter House Five changed my life, amazing read.
- earthtoandy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15off to Tralfamadore he goes. :(
so it goes. - iBenzin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15RIP Mr. Vonnegut.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way.
I am a fool."
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - soccernamlak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Mr. Vonnegut was a genius and a gifted writer. Timequake was one of my favorites.
From his last book:
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
Rest in peace. - ChillHomie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"He is dead?" he said in Creole.
"He is dead," I agreed. There could be no argument about that. - trebe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Maturity, is a bitter dissapointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
brilliant man, so many brilliant quotes. - Zero2aHero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@washingtonydc
Knowing what we know about Kurt, he'd probably be tickled by that comment. What a perfect obituary.
Damn. - argotechnica, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14So strange--I just listened to his voice today. ( http://www.archive.org/details/dn2003-0704 ) I had no idea.
But yes: so it goes. - lexod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12poo-tee-tweet
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