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Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Started conversation Apr 13, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut is dead. It's what he always wanted.
Poo-tee-weet.
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 13, 2007
A line from his Grauniad obituary brought me great joy:
"Gore Vidal said he was the worst Ameican writer ever."
I liked that.
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Recumbentman Posted Apr 14, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut wrote with such delicacy at such high pressure . . . hard to disregard. How did Gore Vidal manage to? Beats me.
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 16, 2007
Actually, Vidal has also praised him highly. They were friends, to a degree. However, Gore is *such* a bitch.
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Recumbentman Posted Apr 16, 2007
Reading "Timequake". Over an aphorism per page so far, each one lapidary. A prophet of our time.
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 16, 2007
I think Timequake is the most underrated of his books. But I don't remember anything about butterflies.
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Recumbentman Posted Apr 16, 2007
Ho hum. Lapidary: (worthy of being) engraved in stone.
Butterflies: lepidoptera
How lepid of you. You can look that one up.
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 16, 2007
That's easy. It's to do with rabbits.
Incidentally...the sponsored links here are worth a look:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Lepid
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Apr 22, 2007
The clock has just struck midnight...
"Goodness me, the clock has struck -
Alackday, and xxxx my luck."
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Apr 24, 2007
"...at his best...in 'Mother Night'...an American spy...finds himself rejected by the American Government...and spends lonely years hiding in New York before being discovered and tried for war crimes by the Israelis.../...it explores war's capacity to destroy man's sense of his own identity...deserves wider currency than many of Vonnegut's more acclaimed books..." (The Times Obituary 13/4/2007).
Unfortunately I haven't yet read 'Mother Night'. But grateful for The Times' tip I'm now eagerly looking out for it.
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Apr 24, 2007
Mother Night is very good 
I'd have trouble deciding what i considered his best but its well worth reading
Still haven't read Timequake 
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 25, 2007
Yes - Mother Night is good. One character is an African American Nazi. And I was reading in the Grauniad recently...there *was* such a character!
Farewell Kurt Vonnegut
Ellen Posted Apr 25, 2007
When I think about Kurt Vonnegut I think about how he signed his name with a star next to it and said it was his "bottom", to put it nicely.
Hehehe. Good writer though, will be missed.
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