Vonnegut Breakfasts with the Champions

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:( I saw the topic title and immediately guessed what it must mean.

Very sadly missed. His work had quite a powerful effect on me when I was a teenager.
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As the great man said "So it goes"

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:cry: One of my all time favourite writers, this is a sad day indeed.

Sol LeWitt passed away the other day too

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Kurt Vonnegut wrote: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.
Kurt is up in heaven now. ;D
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markfiend wrote:
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: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.
Kurt is up in heaven now. ;D

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I know I read some way back when I was knee-high to a taller thing, but I can't recall exactly what. I recall something about ice so it may have been "Cat's Cradle" ? I read so much SF back when I was young - I'd devour at least one book a week with another book on the side that I'd dip into over a longer period. Some of it was a bit beyond me but it was what I liked and at the time reading was a very big thing for me.

I loved the idea of talking about man's stupidity and failing but via fictional things:-
Wikipedia, to save me typing it out again wrote:Metaphorically, ice-nine represents any potentially lethal invention created without regard for the consequences. Ice-nine -- the eighth in a series of differently crystallizing ices with successively higher melting points -- is patently dangerous, as even a small piece of it dropped in the ocean would cause all the earth's water to solidify. Yet it was created, simply because human beings like to create and invent.
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the only one of his i've read is timequake. and very cool it is :notworthy:

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He 's gone now in the garden of delight....some says this life prepare us for livin in
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Must 'fess up that I've never read any of his work.
Something else to add to list as it sounds worth the effort.

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markfiend wrote:
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: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.
Kurt is up in heaven now. ;D
psichonaut wrote:He 's gone now in the garden of delight....some says this life prepare us for livin in
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