OMG!...Another OMG Moment!...
Not of this world...age 84...RIP!"He was sort of like nobody else," said Gore Vidal, who noted that he, Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were among the last writers around who served in World War II.
"He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn't go in for imagination very much. Literary realism was the general style. Those of us who came out of the war in the 1940s made it sort of the official American prose, and it was often a bit on the dull side. Kurt was never dull."
Vonnegut was born on Nov. 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, a "fourth-generation German-American religious skeptic Freethinker," and studied chemistry at Cornell University before joining the Army.
I thought he was wonderfully funny...sometimes in an odd sort of way...yet what a sense of humor and wit...a terrible waste of good humanity that we shall not see again. The good die young...
Labels: death be not proud...
I just noted the passing too.
Indiana can be a scary state to live in.
There seem to have been a few people from this crazy state that did not fit it the mold.
Guess that's why he moved to NY! ; )
Posted by
Coffee Messiah |
2:51 AM
Yeah, Vonnegut's departure is sadly noted by me. However, the last time I saw him on TV, he didn't look too good. Maybe he came to the point where to die is the best thing for a person. Nevertheless, his voice has been silenced for ever, and I feel sad. I think, it's time to find my Slaughter House Five and give it another read.
Posted by
pekka |
3:18 AM
That's a shame that he's gone. I'll have to find and re-read him too.
Posted by
PBS |
4:41 AM
RIP, Kurt. He fought for Peace and now, I hope he has found it, at last.
Posted by
Peacechick Mary |
5:03 AM
Alas!
Posted by
Montag |
5:25 AM
oh man! This the first I've heard... {sighhhh}
auf wiedersehen to a Master Wordsmith and Freethinker!
Posted by
MichaelBains |
6:18 AM
He will be missed.
Posted by
DivaJood |
7:47 AM
great writer. he will be missed
Posted by
Graeme |
7:48 AM
I've posted as well. Thanks for the head's up.
As a frequent visitor to NYC, I'd always hoped to have a chance meeting one of my favorite writers. Now it will never happen, and I'm incredibly sad.
So it goes.
(And thanks for the head's up--your comment.)
Posted by
Kvatch |
7:58 AM
So sad. If kerouac was my papa, Vonnegut was my Opa. He will live on, his place in the canon secured.
Posted by
Frederick |
8:06 AM
It was definitely a blow when I found it out. I sure wish it was someone else riding that death barge out to sea. I'm sure he carries his Excalibur in his heart.
Posted by
sumo |
11:23 AM
Goodby Mr.Rosewater, thorns and blossoms alike. ---Haven't felt a loss like this since Molly died.
Posted by
MandT |
2:11 PM
Odd is cool. And Kurt was cool. RIP.
Posted by
thepoetryman |
4:57 PM
MandT...you're right...not since Molly...they are probably trading barbs at the local writers' hangout sipping something cool.
TPM...he was very cool.
Posted by
sumo |
12:51 AM
Sumo, for your reading pleasure, Blondsense has this post of Kurt's only short story. Friday's Sex Post from the grave: THE BIG SPACE FUCK - by Kurt Vonnegut
http://blondesenseblog.com/
Posted by
earl |
10:21 AM
Thanks Earl...I check it out now.
Posted by
sumo |
11:13 PM