20 month ago
plasticbag : Kurt Vonnegut has died aged 84... - One of my all-time favourite authors, responsi ble for the creation of probably all-time favourite book Slaughterhouse Five, has died. Gutted.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian has a rather better obituary for Kurt Vonnegut
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28 month ago
merlinmann : A Dictionary of Bokononism - "busy, busy, busy: What bokononists whisper whenever they think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is."
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29 month ago
merlinmann : The Books of Bokonon [wrang-wrang] - "A wrang-wrang is 'a person who steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line, with the example of the wrang-wrang's own life, to an absurdity.'" via: Ethan S.
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56 month ago
Andy Baio : Vonnegut's geezer rant on the state of the world - with the obligatory Eugene Debs quote [via]
plasticbag : Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut who frankly deserves a hagiography - "We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we?re hooked on."
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