Thank you Mr. Vonnegut....

[Shankara20]

“Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy”
Books of Bokonon I:5
*"foma" - harmless untruths - a useful and harmless sort of horse shit

Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat’s Cradle"


Thank you Mr. Vonnegut for so much more than I can say....


OM MANI PADME HUM

 

[Netzach]

I liked seeing the quote up on Lit, that was pretty class.

 

[midwestyankee]

A great, funny, and searing voice is still.

 

[BiBunny]

A great, funny, and searing voice is still.

Agreed. He will be missed.

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

Joe Heller

True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.

I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel 'Catch-22'
has earned in its entire history?"
And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have."
And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?"
And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough."
Not bad! Rest in peace!"

The New Yorker, May 16th, 2005

“If it weren’t for the people, the god-damn people” said Finnerty, “always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t for them, the world would be an engineer’s paradise.”

Player Piano (1952:59)

Okay need to go awhile now Fu and get myself a breakfast of champions ....:smiles:

 

[Shankara20]

...”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.
... Thank you for the honor!

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...”
From The Last Rites of the Bokononism

Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat’s Cradle"

 

[Shankara20]

Okay need to go awhile now Fu and get myself a breakfast of champions ....:smiles:

Say "Hello" to Kilgore for me.

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Some more of his wisdom:

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut

 

[MasterPhoenix]

RIP to a great writer....