kurt vonnegut is dead. rip

[anoninnyc]

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1895823.htm

[lumukanda]

thats is indeed sad news, RIP Kurt.

[tru3]

wow. he was my generation's mark twain.

i just finished "a man without a country". here's an excerpt:

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closted white supremamcists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.

To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot. The classical text on PPs is "The Mask of Sanity" by Dr. Hervey Cleckley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, and published in 1941. Read it!

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm

i believe someone posted a link to this in the "predator of man" thread. worth a look.

[tinmenace]

I read Welcome to the Moneyhouse not so long ago. He was soooo way beyond his time wasn't he? He was addressing issues in the 60's that we are living today.

Kick butt wherever you are, Kurt! Thanks for your contribution in this world...

[pollock]

Yes, very sad, one of my favourite authors, I read slaughterhouse 5 when I was 15 and it made me think about a lot of things I probably wouldnt have otherwise, rest in peace Kurt!

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