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Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

Kurt Vonnegut is dead. vonnegut.com has a placeholder image of an empty birdcage with an open gate. I’d always felt that Death was a running theme in the man’s work, from the time I first cracked Slaughterhouse 5 in a high school lit class, to now, this moment when I fi ... Continue reading »

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  • Endings that never quite ended - well said. Vonnegut was often a character in his oown works, but not like Hitchcock put himself into his movies - it wasn't a cute signature; it was a sign of who was boss.
  • Well said, Brendan.

    When I saw the news on p. 3 of the Post, I was surprised that it wasn't front page. Not that I should have been, but my first reaction was, I think, a tribute to his primacy among popular U.S. authors in my lifetime.
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