Comments on: So it goes: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:14:14 +0000

For more on Kurt Vonnegut’s battle with depression, visit http://www.healthcentral.com/depression/kurt-vonnegut.html.
Leaders from the mental health community pay tribute to Vonnegut, and discuss the profound social impact of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing and the significance of public figures opening up about depression.

By: Storey

Storey — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:49:12 +0000

So it goes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atABhlMLYvU

By: Patrick Haugen

Patrick Haugen — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:31:30 +0000

“Same as it ever was.”
Talking Heads

By: dennis trainor

dennis trainor — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:18:51 +0000

great post.

thought you might like this short video tribute to Vonnegut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9QvC9vE9uI

more info @ www.thehermitwithdavisfleetwood.com

By: Falkor7

Falkor7 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:12:35 +0000

Oh a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park
Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

Or the Chinese dentist Or the British Queen
They all fit together In the same machine

Nice, nice, very nice
Nice, nice, very nice
So many people in the same device

Oh a whirling dervish And a dancing bear
Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire

Or a teenage rocker Or the girls in France
Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

Nice, nice, very nice
Nice, nice, very nice
So many people in the same device

I wanted all things to make sense
So we’d be happy instead of tense

Oh a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park
Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

Or the Chinese dentist Or the British Queen
They all fit together In the same machine

Nice, nice, very nice
Nice, nice, very nice
So many people in the same device
So many people in the same device

Kilgore Trout, you will be missed…….

By: Kurt is up in heaven now" Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) « Stupid Reality

Kurt is up in heaven now" Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) « Stupid Reality — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:17:46 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:09:41 +0000

A very sad day.

He wrote his own epitath many times, but I always liked this one, from Man Without A Country:

“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.”

And so, Kurt is up in heaven now.