We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut, long-time smoker author of "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Cats Cradle," died last night of brain injuries he suffered weeks ago during a fall. He was 84.
"I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded eyes and unruly hair…
His novels had a big impact on me--who could forget his telling about a character who is at a party for diplomats and meets the embassador from Chile, can't think of a single thing to say to him, and so finally says, "It must be fascinating to be from a country which is so long and thin."
I loved…
Kurt Vonnegut visted the Galapagos Islands in the early 1980s and wrote looking back on the future of the islands (shifting baselines). I read Vonnegut's Galapagos while in the islands and my favorte line, then and now, is still:
[The Spaniards] did not claim the island for Spain, any more than…
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007.
I was saddened this morning to learn that another one of my favorite writers, Kurt Vonnegut, died. He died last night in Manhattan after suffering a head injury several weeks ago. Like another one of my favorite authors who recently died, William Styron, Vonnegut…