Kurt Vonnegut is Dead

When I read the title of this thread abunch of guys outside my dorm started yelling "Yeah!", it felt wrong.

The only thing I read of his was Slaughter house 5, and I am still confused.
 
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The Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith

God made mud,
God got lonesome,
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!",
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God!
Nobody but You could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way that I can feel the least bit important is to think
of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honour!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait ...
To find out for certain what my wampeter was ...
And who was in my karass ...
And all the good things our karass did for you.
Amen.

....

Seriously, I might cry. Vonnegut was the last great American novelist...

I am in Mourning
 
This is Relevant:

The Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith

God made mud,
God got lonesome,
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!",
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God!
Nobody but You could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way that I can feel the least bit important is to think
of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honour!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait ...
To find out for certain what my wampeter was ...
And who was in my karass ...
And all the good things our karass did for you.
Amen.

....

Seriously, I might cry. Vonnegut was the last great American novelist...

I am in Mourning

I may as well, my friend.
****. This is the worst news to wake up to, ever. Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors ever..
 
I walked into class crying today after I saw this. Reading Cat's Cradle in seventh grade really did change my life. RIP Kurt.
 
I hate the science fiction writer quote.

He was a science fiction writer. The same way Stephen King's a horror writer. Sometimes they do other things, but that's still the majority of their output.

There's nothing worng or embarrassing about being a science fiction writer, and if he would have accepted it I think he would've done a lot to help prove that.

That's about the only thing I never liked about Vonnegut.
 

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