i just read slaughterhouse 5 for the first time there recently.
it's a pity.
it's a pity.
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Slaughterhouse 5 is an amazing book.
Although, for the life of me, I can't remember a thing about it.
thats shit news...he was one of the best writers of the 20th Century, if not ever.
so it goes
Yeah, but he's our friend isn't he? I'm sorry he's dead, the poor divil, from a fall too - how unfortunateEr, he was eighty-five and his writing is *still* with us...so it's not THAT much of a loss.
"And so it goes..." Martin Amis seems very fond of this Vonnegutism.
Er, he was eighty-five and his writing is *still* with us...so it's not THAT much of a loss.
"The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them in cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks.......When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again."
From Slaughterhouse Five...beautiful piece of writing.
Now we know where Martin Amis got the idea for Time's Arrow.
never watched the film, one of my favourite of his books thoughI could never watch the film of Breakfast of Champions, dunno why, just didn't work off the page.
love timequake. bluebeard. s5. etc etc
RIP
Vonnegut also said that he felt "embarrassed" to have lived to the age of 83.
"It's in terrible taste," he said.
"I had a fire several years ago, and it would have been so shapely if I'd died in that - but here I am.
"I'm suing a cigarette company because on the package they promised to kill me, and yet here I am," he joked.
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