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Rest In Peace Kurt Vonnegut

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in News

My favorite story was, ‘Who Am I This Time?’

How about you?

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4 Responses to “Rest In Peace Kurt Vonnegut”

Kevin Norte Says:
April 12th, 2007 at 2:11 am
How sad, I was looking forward to hearing him lecture on June 7, 2007 in Los Angeles.
http://www.musiccenter.org/spkser_speakers.html#Vonnegut
Elyas Says:
April 12th, 2007 at 6:42 am
My favorite was his novel Galapagos, but I loved everything he wrote.

So it goes.
DosPeros Says:
April 12th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
A great literary figure is gone. Thanks Justin for the post. I have several best-ofs, but one of the funniest opening paragraphs…”Harrison Bergeron”:

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They werenÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Which brings me to a fun little game – which organization in the U.S. now most closely resembles the USHG?
Justin Gardner Says:
April 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
The Moral Majority?

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