Vonnegut Breakfasts with the Champions
Posted: 12 Apr 2007, 10:17
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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Posted: 12 Apr 2007, 10:44
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.
Posted: 12 Apr 2007, 10:47
As the great man said "So it goes"
Posted: 12 Apr 2007, 12:03
One of my all time favourite writers, this is a sad day indeed.Sol LeWitt passed away the other day too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt
Posted: 12 Apr 2007, 13:07
Very sad indeed
Posted: 12 Apr 2007, 13:15
Kurt is up in heaven now.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.
Posted: 13 Apr 2007, 04:01
markfiend wrote:Kurt is up in heaven now.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.
Posted: 13 Apr 2007, 13:15
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:-
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.
Posted: 13 Apr 2007, 13:50
the only one of his i've read is timequake. and very cool it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timequake
rip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timequake
rip
Posted: 13 Apr 2007, 23:03
RIP
Posted: 13 Apr 2007, 23:24
He 's gone now in the garden of delight....some says this life prepare us for livin in
Posted: 15 Apr 2007, 10:20
Must 'fess up that I've never read any of his work.
Something else to add to list as it sounds worth the effort.
R.I.P.
Kurt.
Something else to add to list as it sounds worth the effort.
R.I.P.
Kurt.
Posted: 15 Apr 2007, 12:20
markfiend wrote:Kurt is up in heaven now.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.
psichonaut wrote:He 's gone now in the garden of delight....some says this life prepare us for livin in
