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[cleolinda]

Oh no--Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84.

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[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

So long, funny man.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ravengirl/]

Oh no. :(

[free-reverie.livejournal.com]

Oh, son of a BITCH.

That is horrible. :(

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I just saw that. I think I'm still in shock.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow.

First Michael Dibdin, now Vonnegut. Sheesh.

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

What else can go wrong this week? :(


...So it goes.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

WOE.

[graydown.livejournal.com]

He was a nice old man. He came and spoke at the U of Iowa while I was there. He told us about how much he liked mailing his manuscripts... because he got to feed them to the post boxes, which look like friendly blue toads.

They've been friendly blue toads for me ever since.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. :(

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

He's not actually dead, he's just reliving his past.

[vlexor.livejournal.com]

::mourn::

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marcelo/]

Crap.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"feeding the friendly blue toads" is my new favourite euphemism for masturbation.

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

Well, crap.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

caaaan't believe this.

[incognito323.livejournal.com]

So it goes :(

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

WHAT?! no! OMG! ~clings to books~

[bluebythebook.livejournal.com]

Woe. He was the greatest Hoosier ever. You can quote me on that.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

Your icon is great.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

He will be missed....

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

No!

[jacques-louis.livejournal.com]

Kurt Vonnegut died? I know this sounds idiotic, but Harrison Bergeron changed my life.

[frodosgoosegirl.livejournal.com]

That makes me sad. So did that article, all those terrible things that happened to him, I was not aware.

[xanath.livejournal.com]

Gone to the monkey house for good, I suppose. :(

Welcome To The Monkey House and Harrison Bergeron were my introductions to him when I was ten. He envisioned a future so bleak that I nearly fell over when I found he was actually a funny, kind-hearted man.

--Kris

[tala-hiding.livejournal.com]

:( another one bites the dust.

[ceridwynpenn.livejournal.com]

He taught at my college during my senior year and was super ornery. He let students drop off their writing for him to critique; I wasn't brave enough to ask him to read mine and I regret that. He gave hilarious speeches that were totally un-PC and no one really knew how to react, because on one hand it was so wrong and on the other it was Kurt Vonnegut and it was funny. When I met him outside the library, he seemed tired, but he was very nice.

I didn't know he adopted his sister's kids. That is also very nice.

gah. RIP KV!

Sad face...

[mollyblack.livejournal.com]

I've read almost every one of his books. I've even read his son's book on his schizophrenic years, before he became a doctor and an artist.

So all these people saying they didn't know all the kind things he did is weird to me. He wrote about it several times. My favorite book of his, Timequake he talks about a lot of the pain he's been through for instance.

I highly recommend it.

I always thought I would meet him, HST, and Molly Ivins and now they're all gone. I feel much sadness.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

Sad! I've loved him since my 10th grade year of high school.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

May we trade a fleet of Anna Nicoles for him?

Didn't think so. Ah, well.

Yarha, Nearly Gandalfian in Sentiment

[cordilleran2.livejournal.com]

At least he's now in a place where everything is beautiful, and nothing hurts.

[cordilleran2.livejournal.com]

That was the most awesome casual reference to Timequake EVER.

Also, your icon....the book it's from was one of my favourites when I was a kid:-) Any kid who has a Peregrine Falcon is a badass.

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, people care more that she died than they're gonna care about this. If they even notice.

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

Othanks, I really wish I could remember where I found it so I could direct you that way. :x

"Vonnegut in heaven."

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

I am sad. My favorite of his books was _Mother Night_.

On the plus side ... now I know I was correct some time ago:

CRAZED VONNEGUT FAN: Do you think Vonnegut will win the Nobel Prize this year?
KEVIN: Do I ... what? No, I don't. I really, really don't.
FAN: Next year? Do you think he'll win next year?
KEVIN: I assure you that Vonnegut will never win the Nobel Prize.
FAN: How can you say that!?
KEVIN: *shrug* You're right. Anything COULD happen. But I'm not placing money on Vonnegut's ever winning.
FAN: Elitist jerk.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Of course they will.

Kurt Vonnegut would approve and think it perfectly consistent with humanity.

Yarha, And So It Flows

[yarha.livejournal.com]

That is horrible

No, it's just death.

Yarha, Victim of Ubiquitous Mortality

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Aw, this makes me very sad. One of the neatest programs I ever saw was when Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller (before he died) were together on TV discussing writing. That was an awesome interview.

In other things - I remember you mentioning a kind of "personal wiki" you were using to organize story thoughts - I wanted to look into that for a story I want to write, but I couldn't remember where you mentioned it. Help? Thanks! :)

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Gaaah.

I really can't describe it any other way.

have you seen this

[sevenmarie.livejournal.com]

http://blinkytreefrog.livejournal.com/80660.html?thread=355092#t355092

its scans from some 50's book about 'becoming a woman' its more than slightly horrifying

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

pbwiki.com, totally fabulous. I have like six of them now, and they're super-easy to use.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/]

That doesn't sound idiotic at all. We had to read that short story in seventh grade, and it has always held a very dear place in my heart.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I need something to help me organize all the random scenes and character facts floating around in my head. Thanks! :)

[jacques-louis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seventh grade short stories section. We didn't talk about it as a social commentary, just as a short fiction. But I wanted to. I was the only one though.

[pscopathictiger.livejournal.com]

That was probably the funniest thing I'll hear all day. Or week.