So It Goes

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84

It's hard to overstate the effect that Kurt Vonnegut's work had on my psyche. I first read him as a teenager, and works of dark humor and mind-blowing originality like CAT'S CRADLE, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, and SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE rearranged my head. I remianed a fan all the way through his most recent work, the rather pessimistic A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.

It saddens me to hear he's gone, but he's left an indelible mark on our culture that will live on.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC
-Kurt Vonnegut