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Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt -- Kurt Vonnegut is dead

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The Far Side wrote: »
    Yehoshua wrote: »
    Kurt is up in Heaven now.
    No, he's not, goddamnit

    I'd like to think he is having a pleasant time there.

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  • Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I'm there, Scarlet.

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I'll finish these Lucky Strikes up, then.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] new member
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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    maybe he's hanging out with Jesus

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  • NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Teefs

    You are silly

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The Far Side wrote: »
    scarlet st. wrote: »
    The Far Side wrote: »
    Yehoshua wrote: »
    Kurt is up in Heaven now.
    No, he's not, goddamnit

    I'd like to think he is having a pleasant time there.
    SIGH

    Can't a man have his beliefs, Paperclips?

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  • DranoDrano __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2007
    vonneguts going to hell


    I loved vonnegut more than any of you

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Darth is doing a terrible job of going to bed.

    Sheri on
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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    i always thought vonnegut was gonna live forever :/

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    That's the nicotine, Sheri.

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  • DranoDrano __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2007
    http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=18090&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fthe_daily_show%2Fvideos%2Fcelebrity_interviews%2Findex.jhtml%3FplayVideo%3D18090&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true
    anyone post this?

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I never read anything he wrote.

    Granted, I don't read anything anyone else writes either.

    I can empathize (or is it sympathize?) with folks though.

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  • Seattle ThreadSeattle Thread Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Orikaeshigitae wrote: »
    i always thought vonnegut was gonna live forever :/
    For someone who drank and smoked as much as he did, he lasted a hell of a long time.

    Seattle Thread on
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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited April 2007
    I don't know how I've managed to not read any of his books or short stories

    I'll try to remedy that, but right now I'm confused as to how I haven't read any of his stuff

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I got linked to Harrison Bergeron a little while ago and realized that I'd forgotten I'd read it in high school and that it was by Vonnegut so now I'm sad too.

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  • Seattle ThreadSeattle Thread Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    I got linked to Harrison Bergeron a little while ago and realized that I'd forgotten I'd read it in high school and that it was by Vonnegut so now I'm sad too.
    That was from Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of shorts and they're all fantastic.

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  • naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The Far Side wrote: »
    scarlet st. wrote: »
    The Far Side wrote: »
    Yehoshua wrote: »
    Kurt is up in Heaven now.
    No, he's not, goddamnit

    I'd like to think he is having a pleasant time there.
    SIGH
    Teefs.

    I'm going to perhaps err on the side of foolishness here, and assume that you're being sincere in this thread.

    Several years back, Stephen Jay Gould wrote a lovely piece about the differing--and not necessarily oppositional--rolls that science and religion play in the human experience, called "Nonoverlapping Magisteria". It revolved mainly around a trip that he and Carl Sagan took to a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in Rome. In his postscript, he mentioned the recently-deceased Sagan, and spoke not of science but of how, as a scientist, he hoped he was wrong about the existence of souls.

    Teefs, religion, Heaven, God, Allah, Jesus, whatever...these things can--paradoxically--comfort atheists sometimes as well.

    In other words, now is as great a time as any to hope that you're wrong.
    Stephen Jay Gould, speaking of Carl Sagan, wrote:
    Carl also shared my personal suspicion about the nonexistence of souls—but I cannot think of a better reason for hoping we are wrong than the prospect of spending eternity roaming the cosmos in friendship and conversation with this wonderful soul.

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  • YehoshuaYehoshua Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The Far Side wrote: »
    scarlet st. wrote: »
    The Far Side wrote: »
    Yehoshua wrote: »
    Kurt is up in Heaven now.
    No, he's not, goddamnit

    I'd like to think he is having a pleasant time there.
    SIGH

    No, you see, that's his favorite joke. He told it at a Unitarian funeral. He just wanted people to tell it about him when he died, God forbid.

    Ya see, because they don't believe in good actions as an attempt to get into Heaven.

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    So I just read Harrison Bergeron, and now I'm sad Kurt Vonnegut is dead too.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    man I still can't get my head around all of this

    I mean, yeah, the dude has been on death's door for years, practically knocking and begging to go through

    but still

    man, what a fucking loss

    also, just looked over Steadman's site to see if he had any mention of it (no, still too early) and realized that Vonnegut wrote the intro for Steadman's book on HST

    man I need to get that book

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Makershot wrote: »
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    I got linked to Harrison Bergeron a little while ago and realized that I'd forgotten I'd read it in high school and that it was by Vonnegut so now I'm sad too.
    That was from Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of shorts and they're all fantastic.

    Such a quality collection too.

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  • SASA Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    sigh


    this thread makes me so sad

    I just want to go do something else to get my mind off it

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    I still believe in the idea of a karass

    I think that was a pretty brilliant little idea he had

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    What's that, Rank

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    Meissnerd wrote: »
    What's that, Rank

    kind of a hard thing to describe as well as he does, but it is sort of like a group of people you are basically destined to be with

    not like a spouse or a lover necessarily, but one of them might be part of your karass

    but more like people that are a part of your life whether you like it or not and that are inextricably linked to your own destiny

    I don't think I'm describing it right, though

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_re_us/obit_vonnegut

    Appearantly you guys are wrong about death-by-ciggarettes thing.

    Seems he died from falling and taking a nasty blow to the head.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    this is proof that smoking is harmless


    cigarette sales to drop amazingly

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The man lives to 84

    wonders how in the hell he hasn't died yet

    what with all he's been through and the horrible shit he's put in his body

    even tried to kill himself once

    and what finally takes him out?

    the floor

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark,
    and a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park,
    and a Chinese dentist and a British queen,
    all fit together in the same machine.
    Nice, nice, very nice,
    nice, nice, very nice,
    nice, nice, very nice
    such very different people in the same device.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    Tiger got to hunt,
    Bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"

    Tiger got to sleep,
    Bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.




    'night y'all

    Knob on
  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    kafkaesque

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    Tiger got to hunt,
    Bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"

    Tiger got to sleep,
    Bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.




    'night y'all

    I wanted all things
    To seem to make some sense,
    So we all could be happy, yes,
    Instead of tense.
    And I made up lies
    So that they all fit nice,
    And I made this sad world
    A Par-a-dise.


    night, bonk

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    Tiger got to hunt,
    Bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"

    Tiger got to sleep,
    Bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.




    'night y'all

    see you in pall mall tomorrow

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Goddammit.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    That's what you guys get for reading books by old men

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