Gee, everyone is all boohooing about Vonnegut's death. I guess I might as well be the one to piss in their cornflakes.Vonnegut was a brilliant author. I read practically everything he wrote. He was fucking brilliant. Then he went and pulled this crap out of his ass lauding suicide bombers ["I regard them as very brave people," said Kurt]
Don't let the door to Hell hit you in the ass on the way in, Kurt.
So it goes.
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Someone told me Kurt had had a stroke. Is this true? If so that might offer an alternate explanation.
Still, I'd rather remember him as the author of Slapstick, Galapagos and Harrison Bergeron, rather than for some dumb comments he made as an old man.
The man survived the fire bombing of Dresden as a POW so I reckon he may have known what he was talking about on certain things...
Someone told me Kurt had had a stroke. Is this true? If so that might offer an alternate explanation.
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Posted by Robert Winefield to Not PC at 4/14/2007 04:56:07 AM
Still, I'd rather remember him as the author of Slapstick, Galapagos and Harrison Bergeron, rather than for some dumb comments he made as an old man.
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Posted by Phil (Pacific Empire) to Not PC at 4/14/2007 03:40:02 PM
The man survived the fire bombing of Dresden as a POW so I reckon he may have known what he was talking about on certain things...
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Posted by James to Not PC at 4/14/2007 07:28:21 PM
I recently read Galapagos. It is very well-written, with some cunning literary devices.
However, I thought it was a malthusian, technophobic environmentalist's wet dream - anti-human and anti-reason, in other words. I wasn't sure whether he was playing devil's advocate, until I read this in the link you posted:
"... our corporations have been the principal deliverers and imposers of new technologies and economic schemes that have wrecked the self-respect, the cultures of men, women and children in so many other societies."
Blech.
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