[lbo-talk] Vonnegut

[chuck at mutualaid.org]

Vonnegut's passing is a major bummer for me, kind of in the Kurt
Cobain/John Lennon category of cultural icons who will be really missed.
Vonnegut lived a long life and I'm sure the Tralfalmadorians observed a
bright spark yesterday at the end of Vonnegut's wormtrip through space and
time.

BAM!

I think I've read almost all of Vonnegut's works, save for the most recent
one. I really loved Vonnegut as an entertaining, thought-provoking,
hilarious and much more.

I experienced one of his brilliant lectures at the University of Kansas in
the mid 80s. I remember his hilarious take on plots in fiction. He
diagrammed the plot of Kafka's "Metamophosis." He showed the standard plot
line with the climax peak. The hsi diagrammed the plot of his novels, in
which mostly nothing happens, hence the horizontal line.

One of the best sources for pithy witticisms about the demise of Vonnegut
is Fark:
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2733876

Chuck

//stuck in the airport waiting for the weather in NYC to improve
///they just announced another delay of an hour
///at least the sun just came out here in Kanasas City