i have to completely disagree with you. a loss would have been if vonnegut died during the firebombing of dresden. a loss is those with talents comparable or surpassing those of vonneguts who died in the idiocies that vonnegut deplored and wrote of. KV, on the other hand, lived a long life and blessed us with lots of brilliance and beauty. i am inclined to think that if he were told of his own death, he'd shrug and say, "all right, then," and light a cigarette.

here is what is apparently vonnegut's only love story.

raise a glass to the man and his work today. he's one worth celebrating.