[RIP] Kurt Vonnegut

[Krug]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?hp

Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.


His death was reported by the publisher Morgan Entrekin, a longtime family friend, who said Mr. Vonnegut suffered brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago.

 

[Mark CMG]

Damn. Sad news.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Agreed. Very sad.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Crappy way to go out after you've made it to 84 years of age. Definitely sad news.

 

[Chimera]

Not having read any of his work anytime I can remember (but possibly back when I was a teen), I remember him from the Rodney Dangerfield move "Back to School", where he showed up for a quick cameo.

The joke being that RD's character Thornton Mellon had hired Vonnegut to ghost write a class paper about his own works for Thornton.

And it only got a B.

 

[Torx]

Still one of my all-time favorite short stories is Harrison Bergeron.

 

[Mallus]

So it goes...

I have to remember to thumb my nose at the Heavens tonight before I go to bed.

 

[Wombat]

...nice mud...

 

[Jamdin]

Goodnight, Mr. Vonnegut

 

[Nightfall]

And so passes a literary icon of our times. Bye Kurt.