death

[tempter]

As everyone now knows, Kurt Vonnegut died.

I'm a little taken aback by the apparent outpouring of emotion toward the man across the people on my friends list. Don't get me wrong -- he was a good guy and a great author. But...

The only time I've ever actually seen Vonnegut was when he was on The Daily Show, just after releasing A Man without a

Comments

[cumaeansibyl]

[seserakh]

Hear hear.

[trianakvetch]

what shocked me was the surprise people had regarding his death. Come on! he was old. People die. If he had been in his 30s, 40s, I could understand...but his clock started ticking down a long time ago.