So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at the age of 84.
This passage from Timequake came to mind when I heard the news:
I spoke at a Humanist Association memorial service for Dr. Asimov a few years back. I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisle. The room was like the court-martial scene in Trout's "No Laughing Matter," right before the floor of the Pacific Ocean swallowed up the third atomic bomb and Joy's Pride and all the rest of it.
When I myself am dead, God forbid, I hope some wag will say about me, "He's up in Heaven now."
He's up in Heaven now.
This passage from Timequake came to mind when I heard the news:
I spoke at a Humanist Association memorial service for Dr. Asimov a few years back. I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisle. The room was like the court-martial scene in Trout's "No Laughing Matter," right before the floor of the Pacific Ocean swallowed up the third atomic bomb and Joy's Pride and all the rest of it.
When I myself am dead, God forbid, I hope some wag will say about me, "He's up in Heaven now."
He's up in Heaven now.