Kurt Vonnegut

[earthenforge]

My favorite contemporary author is dead.

I'm sad.

But he's in heaven now. (That one's for you, Kurt. Thanks for finding laughter and irony in the worst of situations.)

Comments

[diesira]

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

slaughterhouse 5

[earthenforge]

Good quotes, guys.
As referenced above (and also from "Man Without a Country"):

"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."

And also appropriate, I suppose:

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"