And so it goes…
Eish.
And the planet just got a little bit lighter.
RIP.
This is a great loss to the world. he was a great man.
R.I.P.
"“Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
Never read any of his books, but it’s still sad that he died.
+1
Do.
I feel I’ve read something that he wrote, but can’t remember what. Maybe it was just a short story.
I’ve actually only read Cats Cradle, and have been intending to read more of his work for some time…now that he’s dead, I probably will.
“Sally in the garden, sifting cinders…”
I can still recite the entire four line diddy having read it only once in God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.
“…went clap, clap, clap.”
Hmm, that rings a bell.
Could you post some more and maybe I’ll remember?
Stalker.
Googling the first line and the author’s name brings up references to the short poem and the book title, Jailbird. I remember it being God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater but I’ve been wrong lots of times.
Regardless, it’s easy enough to search out. I don’t know who the original author is but it’s unimportant. Better, read both books. Vonnegut writes at about the eighth grade level and the books read like lightening. The diddy appears in the first chapter of whatever book and does involve a man sitting on a bunk in a jail cell. I’d rather not print the full content in these fora even though it is only very mildly offensive.
By coincidence, I read Slaughterhouse 5 earlier this year. I read a couple of his other books years ago. Sorry to hear we’ve lost another original thinker.
I wonder if he ever got around to building that statue.
So it goes.
Thus read’s Vonnegut’s tomb, as it appears in Hell, to the subject of the Larry Niven book Inferno, about a science fiction writer who dies (accidentally?) and finds Hell to be similar to what he read about in Dante’s Inferno, but with several hundred years of updates. Vonnegut’s tomb, I believe, is in an area reserved for agnostics or atheists, and his tomb has a neon sign that flashes “So it goes.”
News in: Kurt Vonnegut still dead.
Like many of my friends, I read all the Vonnegut books in the early 1970s, and tried to keep up as more came out. We loved Kurt.
I recall going into a video store asking for Slaughterhouse 5, and the guy said he didn’t even think they had Slaughterhouse 1.
At college commencements, he was known for giving advice college grads truly need, like “floss your teeth.”
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut!
I laughed out loud at the first part of that 
Kids these days…as for the second part, you may be talking about the Sunscreen Speech, which is an amazingly awesome speech/song (the song version is really really cool) but he didn’t actually write it…but anyway.
I was looking for quotes by Kurt Vonnegut and I found this one, which seems relevant at the moment:
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
I wonder if that will be his epitaph…
You so stole that bit.