[amimabremiBit]

Kurt Vonnegut died today. So it goes.

[iodigmaFemZem]

Kurt Vonnegut died today. So it goes.

I did not know. Sad. One of the truly great American writers. I read "The Sirens of Titan" when I was a teenager. Have never forgotten the lines "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

[DoctorDulitlBest]

Sad indeed. A great author

[fissasste]

As the Italians do when someone has passed on who has lead an extraordinary life and contributed profoundly to the human race:

(Resounding Applause)

~Though I don't think most of the folks here get the reference "So it goes".
"So it goes" is from one of his more famous books, Slaughterhouse 5. If you have not read it, it's mind candy of a most sublime sort.
Personally, His works impacted me in so many ways it's not even funny.
The man was a deep beacon of literary genius.

I’ll never forget, There was a line also from the book where he described the act of killing in war as “making men simple”
Kurt had a way of creating imagery with such thought provoking concepts like no other I have ever read.

[Smeaphvalialm]

I love his work.
Slapstick... first book to make me actually tear up reading the prologue.

[ViagraFeller]

In the large group of people I've never met, Vonnegut was the one who effected my psyche most positively by far. His writing was a comfort to me as a boy and young man, and I didn't realize his presence in the world was a comfort to me until I read that he was dead in this morning's paper.

I keep wanting to read an obituary that begins: "Kurt Vonnegut died today. He was 84 years old. His penis was six and a half inches long and one and a quarter inches in diameter" but I don't think I'll find one.