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04-12-2007, 05:53 AM #26
thanks for everything KV
especially Breakfast of champions and Bluebeard.
but all was good
well maybe not Time quake
but the charecter of the man was more than his works.
he contributed to our yogurt
Mark Twain, at the end of a profoundly meaningful life, for which he never received a Nobel Prize, asked himself what it was we all lived for. He came up with six words which satisfied him. They satisfy me, too. They should satisfy you:
''The good opinion of our neighbors.''
Neighbors are people who know you, can see you, can talk to you -- to whom you may have been of some help or beneficial stimulation.... They are not nearly as numerous as the fans, say, of Madonna or Michael Jordan.
To earn their good opinions, you should apply the special skills you have learned here, and meet the standards of decency and honor and fair play set by exemplary books and elders.
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04-12-2007, 06:44 AM #27
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04-12-2007, 06:58 AM #28eastern shore
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Traveling into the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum..........
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04-12-2007, 07:01 AM #29
He influenced me more than any other writer, I'm so sad yet I know he is probably loving this new adventure.
Maybe I'll do that wall carving for him somewhere the martians can really see it...not sure they would look in the grand canyon. A Target or Walmart would probably draw their attention more immediately.
RIP KV, you da man!
Sprite"I call it reveling in natures finest element. Water in its pristine form. Straight from the heavens. We bathe in it, rejoicing in the fullest." --BZ
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04-12-2007, 07:05 AM #30
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04-12-2007, 07:23 AM #31
so sad. One of the best.
"It is not the result that counts! It is not the result but the spirit! Not what - but how. Not what has been attained - but at what price.
- A. Solzhenitsyn
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04-12-2007, 07:26 AM #32Registered User
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KV helped me through my teens and influenenced my thinking for decades beyond. I believe he would have considered TGR a granfalloon and all the maggots members.
Legalize it. Don't criticize it.
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04-12-2007, 07:37 AM #33Sub-par GTA Player
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So it goes.
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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04-12-2007, 07:37 AM #34
Thank You Kurt Vonnegut.
I too see the world the way I do partially because of him.
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04-12-2007, 07:42 AM #35
beat me to it.
One great mind and talented writer exits the earth. I read most of his books. Not one in the bunch that disappointed. A master at the melding of humour and philosophy. Mother Night was a masterpiece as was Slaughterhouse Five
(two books which should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in what happened in WW II and unfortunately continues to happen) . He will be missed.Last edited by KGTrips; 04-12-2007 at 07:45 AM.
"A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything."
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04-12-2007, 07:49 AM #36
Leaving behind a wonderful corpus of work, a life for its time, and a humanity rarely seen.
Ars longa, vita brevis.
RIP.not counting days 2016-17
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04-12-2007, 07:53 AM #37
Writers like him are few and far between. Thanks for sharing Kurt.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do."
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04-12-2007, 07:55 AM #38
so it goes.
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04-12-2007, 08:18 AM #39
I read a great article recently about Norman Mailer. it briefly went into how those post WWII novelists, of which Mailer and Vonnegut were a part are so unique to our culture.
thanks guys."The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" --Margaret Thatcher
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04-12-2007, 08:31 AM #40And so it goes
R.I.P. Kurt. My all time favorite.
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04-12-2007, 08:46 AM #41
RIP ... ... ... ... .. . . .
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04-12-2007, 08:53 AM #42
Hi Ho
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04-12-2007, 09:11 AM #43Originally Posted by Kurt Vonnegut
I boiled my thermometer, and sure enough, this spot, which purported to be two thousand feet higher than the locality of the hotel, turned out to be nine thousand feet LOWER. Thus the fact was clearly demonstrated that, ABOVE A CERTAIN POINT, THE HIGHER A POINT SEEMS TO BE, THE LOWER IT ACTUALLY IS. Our ascent itself was a great achievement, but this contribution to science was an inconceivably greater matter.
--MT--
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04-12-2007, 09:41 AM #44
Kilgore Trout also died at 84.
kinda weird, no?
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04-12-2007, 10:03 AM #45
"If you really want to disappoint your parents, and don't have the heart to be gay, go into the arts." - my college's 2004 commencement speach (although this is quoted else where).
Great author.
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04-12-2007, 10:06 AM #46
" '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.' "
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04-12-2007, 10:12 AM #47
In the recent Rolling Stone interview with him he said he wanted this on his tombstone.
"RIP Kurt Vonnegut
The only proof he needed of the existence of God was music."
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04-12-2007, 10:29 AM #48
I read Harrison Bergeron in sixth grade, and like many of you it totally changed how I saw the world around me.
sig edited for respect.Now watch me become what I can become.
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04-12-2007, 10:59 AM #49Registered User
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So it goes......
Vonnegut is my favorite author...... i can't get enough of his books, i have vowed to read all of them, so far I have read somewhere near half, and there hasn't been a bad one yet, not even timequake........ his books have helped shaped my philosophical outlook on life and have helped me come to terms with the bad cards dealt in life and accepting death for what it is........ the man was a genius and I'm glad he went of natural causes, i guess i always expected him to take his own life........... he had such a gift for protraying humanity in a certain light, showing the good side in even the worst of characters and their ambivalence to their misdeeds....... Thank you Kurt Vonnegut and may you rest in peace (or better yet continue to enjoy the life you have already lived)
Hi ho!
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04-12-2007, 11:07 AM #50Sub-par GTA Player
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"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
*"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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