Kurt Vonnegut dead. So it goes.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
What's funny is that I didn't even know of that event until I read the news story today.

Do his relatives really think that Jim ****ing Morrison is doomed to be remembered as a sex offender unless they do something?

QFT.
Jim Morrison's lewd acts are way down on the list of things he is known for.

[Dis]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I have it on a video clip. Morrison, not Kurt.

cool, I'd like to see him fondling himself.

[MOBIUS]

In fact they seem hellbent on getting everyone to find out about it - because I never knew that either...

[Dis]

I read the biography of Jim, that's the only reason I knew about it. Us young kids who weren't born back then had no clue. I think he was dead before I was born (73).

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Vonnegut>Thompson

Vonnegut once said that of all the ways to die, he'd prefer to go out in an airplane crash on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. He often joked about the difficulties of old age.

"When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut told The Associated Press in 2005.

"My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."

[RGBVideo]

So did he die because of his smoking habits like he wished?

[Guynemer]

One of my absolute favorite authors.

Cat's Cradle.

[mactbone]

He died from a fall he took. I don't know the specifics but IIRC he suffered a head injury.

I was going to see him speak in Indy on April 27th as part of Vonnegut week. His son was still going to speak when Vonnegut wasn't going to make it because of the fall, but now I'm not so sure they'll do that.

[Drake Tungsten]

"My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."

I thought Vonnegut tried to off himself in the '80s but couldn't pull it off...

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Guynemer


One of my absolute favorite authors.

Cat's Cradle.

& I quote from one of Bokonon's Calysos:

When I was young, I was big and mean.
I chased these girls, just like St. Augustine.
St. Augustine, he got to be a saint.
So if I get to be one too, momma, don't you faint!

& paraphrasing from Mother Night

They say when you die you hear beautiful music. I just hope it's not White Christmas.

[Lancer]

Still dead? Not to be an ass, but I think he's warping in and out of time while doing some flower power chick on the planet...oh hell, some other planet.

[DaShi]

Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors. "Rosewater" is great.

Tingaling!