Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:02:56 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
    "WSFA Forum" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sad news - Kurt Vonnegut died
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> samlubell at verizon.net 04/12/07 2:01 AM >>>
>See
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?_r=1
>&hp&oref=slogin

To paraphrase the opening of Slaughter House Five:
"Listen: Kurt Vonnegut has become unstuck in time."

>He was certainly a science fiction writer for most of his career.

"I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the
only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on,
the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not
a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years.
You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the
future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us,
what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous
misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the
only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit,
over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now
determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is
going to be Heaven or Hell." (Eliot Rosewater to a group of science
fiction writers) - from "God Bless You, Mr Rosewater"

... or was he a writer who also happened to write the stuff?
 http://www.vonnegutweb.com/archives/arc_scifi.html

"So it goes."

mjw