Thursday, April 12, 2007

R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut

"Within the next 24 hours somebody will write "Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. So it goes." It won't be me. Vonnegut hated the trite and obvious, and he hated sentimentality.

But he didn't hate sentiment. He was comfortable with sentiment, despite living in a culture where deep emotion is sometimes treated as a social disorder."

[more here]


Another voice that we can ill-afford to lose.

R.

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