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Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
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08-20-2009, 01:43 AM | #2 |
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I was really interested in finding that your second favorite book is Slaughterhouse Five I have been struggling with it for a few weeks now and can't make head or tail of it, just shows one man's meat is another man's poison and this is certainly mine
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08-20-2009, 02:02 AM | #3 |
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wow, seeing this post come back onto the recent threads made me think Kurt had died twice.
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I remember in one of his essays, Vonnegut commented on the struggles of being a Science Fiction author in the 50's and 60's stating (I paraphrase):
Science Fiction manuscripts are kept in a lower cabinet drawer that agents and publishers occasionally open in order to urinate in them.
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That scared the crap out of me for a minute, I thought I was actually in "Slaughterhouse Five" for a moment there and I'd jumped back in time to that awful day when Kurt died
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Something thats been kicking around my Reader..
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08-20-2009, 10:50 AM | #8 |
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ahhhh the Deans of scifi slip away
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A little about his children (and heirs): http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/kur...ut/family.html
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