R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
I just heard that Kurt Vonnegut died earlier today. Like many, including I'd imagine most of the type of people who'd end up on this site, I was a fan. In his honor, here's a quote that ran in his Times obitituary, taken from the mouth of the title character in his bizarrely wonderful '60s novel, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater:
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'"
Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday at the age of 84. So it goes. And every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by "the war on terror" in Iraq. So it goes.
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Also, if you're reading this and happen to still be in college, please do this next month during finals:
"When he went off to Cornell University in 1940, he followed his older brother into science as a chemistry major. Unlike his brother, however, Vonnegut was a poor student who gained attention for his practical jokes, such as showing up for final exams of large classes he was not enrolled in and shredding the exam in front of the astonished instructor."
I think he would be proud that this blog entry had the word "obitituary" in it.
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