God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut
An old fart died the other day. So it goes.
Cat's Cradle was among the top five works that impacted me most in my high school years (along with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the Elric Saga, the R.E.M. catalog, and the Tao Te Ching). I didn't read Slaughterhouse-Five until my college years, and I don't think I really appreciated it until I read it more recently. I have a feeling I'll appreciate it even more when I'm ten years older, and so on.