Kurt is up in heaven now.
Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday.
so it goes.
Now I really need to get my tattoo.
also, take up smoking so I can chain-smoke Pall Malls in memory.
EDIT:
the more I think about this, the more I can't even begin to explain my level of sadness, even though I never met the man.
but, his own words comfort me so bear with me because I thought I'd just share a little bit of the wondrousness that is Vonnegut:
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
"Live by the foma [harmless untruths] that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
(I think right now the foma I am depending on is that Tralfamadorians are right.)
"As Bokonon tells us, 'It is never a mistake to say goodbye.'"
(Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut.)
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."
(Listen: Kurt Vonnegut has come unstuck in time.... in other words, he is alive and kicking in many other moments, and all you need to do is pick up a book to know that he has not nor will not ever be really gone.)
“I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, “Isaac is up in heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That’s my favorite joke.”
you've got it, Kurt.
so it goes.
Now I really need to get my tattoo.
also, take up smoking so I can chain-smoke Pall Malls in memory.
EDIT:
the more I think about this, the more I can't even begin to explain my level of sadness, even though I never met the man.
but, his own words comfort me so bear with me because I thought I'd just share a little bit of the wondrousness that is Vonnegut:
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
"Live by the foma [harmless untruths] that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
(I think right now the foma I am depending on is that Tralfamadorians are right.)
"As Bokonon tells us, 'It is never a mistake to say goodbye.'"
(Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut.)
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."
(Listen: Kurt Vonnegut has come unstuck in time.... in other words, he is alive and kicking in many other moments, and all you need to do is pick up a book to know that he has not nor will not ever be really gone.)
“I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, “Isaac is up in heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That’s my favorite joke.”
you've got it, Kurt.