So It Goes
My very favorite author, Kurt Vonnegut, has died at the age of 84.
I know he was getting old and fragile, and no one lives forever, but I somehow never thought that he would exit this world. The creator of Bokonon and Billy Pilgrim, Eliot Rosewater and Ice-Nine, Kilgore Trout and Wanda June and Tralfamadore is gone forever. Unless he simply became unstuck in time, and is now reliving random moments of his life in a surreal jumble of experiences that- but no, probably not.
There will be no more wampeters, foma or granfalloons. Goodbye, Kurt, the world will miss you. In memoriam, here are the words his character Eliot Rosewater spoke in the novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater that seem to pretty well sum up the philosophy he subscribed to:
"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.' "
I know he was getting old and fragile, and no one lives forever, but I somehow never thought that he would exit this world. The creator of Bokonon and Billy Pilgrim, Eliot Rosewater and Ice-Nine, Kilgore Trout and Wanda June and Tralfamadore is gone forever. Unless he simply became unstuck in time, and is now reliving random moments of his life in a surreal jumble of experiences that- but no, probably not.
There will be no more wampeters, foma or granfalloons. Goodbye, Kurt, the world will miss you. In memoriam, here are the words his character Eliot Rosewater spoke in the novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater that seem to pretty well sum up the philosophy he subscribed to:
"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.' "
posted by Generik at 7:24 AM
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