So it goes
Sorry to be completely off topic, but Vonnegut died last night, and i Saw there was no thread on here and I know people have mentioned him before so I thought I'd let people know.
Who's chain smokin' pall malls with me today? |
yeah. I'm about to read 'Blue Beard' by him.
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'blue beard' is my favorite vonnegut book i've read. i've only read a few though.
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unstuck in time now.
I was able to teach part of "Slaughterhouse Five" - I wish it could have been all of it. K.V. kept me fully entertained my first year of college a true loss |
so it goes.
indeed. cheers kurt! |
oh i thoiught oit was someone on these forums and i was going to be sad but never find f em..
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Yep, sad to see him go, but after seeing him on the Daily Show last year I kind of felt his time was coming to an end. I'd much rather be reading any one of his books and Irish waking him than reading my school books. Farewell, Mr. V!
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Well, I don't really take offense at that, but based off your sentence structure, I can see why.
You get a small reprieve if english isn't your primary language. |
Originally Posted by [165]
a true loss
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. |
Originally Posted by nayr497
Yep, sad to see him go, but after seeing him on the Daily Show last year I kind of felt his time was coming to and end. I'd much rather be reading any one of his books and Irish waking him than reading my school books. Farewell, Mr. V!
He's been dissapointed for a while that smoking hadn't killed him. |
Originally Posted by refry
oh i thoiught oit was someone on these forums and i was going to be sad but never find f em..
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Word, queerpunk. Pretty apt description.
It would be a harder blow if he had still been writing. |
yeah.
time for me to get timequake. i didn't like galapagos much, but i don't hold it against him. |
Since we're totally off topic, let me share a strange memory of KV: In college, my friend and I had this habit when we were walking around of seeing random strangers and saying, "Hey, there goes . . ." and we'd insert the name of a random famous person who the stranger looked like (or totally didn't look like, if that was funny at the moment). So one night we were walking down Grand Street in SoHo around 11:00, and about a block ahead of us we saw some old guy come out of a building and light up a cigarette. For whatever reason, I said, "Hey! There goes Kurt Vonnegut!" And then, when we walked by him, it was Kurt Vonnegut, which was amusing and strangely exciting, since I'm not usually wowed by seeing famous people. Also, he wrote awesome books.
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Alright friends. Just had a bottle of Premium(raised appropriately high to kurt v) to start the day. Off to pick up some pall malls and go to work! I'll check in later make sure vonnegut is gettign enough love.
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So it goes.
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I still laugh every time I think reading one KV for the first time and he is writing about beavers. He includes a picture of a beaver you'd find in a pond, but that of course is not the beaver he means.
From the memory bank - I think that is in "Breakfast of Champions"? Feel free to correct me, but even if I'm wrong I still love his line drawing of a beaver. By the way...I guess I always just assumed he did his own drawings since they were so simple. Anyone have the answer to this? |
everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
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One of my good friends used to be in the publishing world, and was KV's assistant for a time. More recently, they would still meet in Central Park for hot dogs from time to time when they were both in NYC. His email to me this morning: "oh he had a full life. and lots of a$$." Indeed.
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Originally Posted by nayr497
I still laugh every time I think reading one KV for the first time and he is writing about beavers. He includes a picture of a beaver you'd find in a pond, but that of course is not the beaver he means.
From the memory bank - I think that is in "Breakfast of Champions"? Feel free to correct me, but even if I'm wrong I still love his line drawing of a beaver. By the way...I guess I always just assumed he did his own drawings since they were so simple. Anyone have the answer to this? |
Originally Posted by dirtyphotons
everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
my sister texted me and told me. im kinda bummed, but it was expected. time to go reread all the books i own and buy the rest of the collection. she was going to get me one of his books personalized, but it was too expensive, so she settled for palahniuk. still one of the coolest gifts ive ever received. if i drank, i would drink one right now. |
Originally Posted by queerpunk
i have to completely disagree with you. a loss would have been if vonnegut died during the firebombing of dresden.
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so it goes
but i am pretty ******** crushed about this. my favorite author ever |
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The world has lost a great hero....
Rest in peace, Kurt. I'll drink a tall one for you, and fire up another butt. |
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