tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post3899734872076438597..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: Kurt VonnegutAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-68888432513817480882007-04-13T02:22:00.000-07:002007-04-13T02:22:00.000-07:00Kurt is up in heaven now."Being a humanist means t...Kurt is up in heaven now.<BR/><BR/>"Being a humanist means that you try to behave as decently, as honourably, as you can without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. When we had a memorial service for Isaac Asimov a few years back, I spoke at it and said at one point, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could think of to say to an audience of humanists. Believe me, it worked - I rolled them in the aisles. <BR/>If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope people will say, "Kurt is up in Heaven now." That's my favourite joke. "<BR/>--Kurt VonnegutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-5468405811503761472007-04-12T20:43:00.000-07:002007-04-12T20:43:00.000-07:00Well said jan. Thank you for that one.Well said jan. Thank you for that one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-35086857391188267382007-04-12T19:54:00.000-07:002007-04-12T19:54:00.000-07:00The man had doubt - you can trust a man who has do...The man had doubt - you can trust a man who has doubt.<BR/><BR/>Lots of talk of him being a hero to the counterculture. <BR/>No, he was a hero to everyone who read him - it's just that some of those readers lost themselves later on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-23300897714861838712007-04-12T19:31:00.000-07:002007-04-12T19:31:00.000-07:00God bless you, Mr Vonnegut.God bless you, Mr Vonnegut.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-14013295032139628052007-04-12T19:23:00.000-07:002007-04-12T19:23:00.000-07:00They say he had a fall and died from complications...They say he had a fall and died from complications but I only imagine him lying on a mountaintop, thumbing his nose at the heavens, and doing a dose of Strontium 9. <BR/> The man woke me up in my teens, and I'd revisit his works every 10 years or so and love it all over again. Then in the last 4 desperate years of this world he had become the most strident anti-apologist for anything American. He'd become again, in a word, my hero.<BR/> I read of his death at 84 on the BBC website and right beside it was another headline celebrating the 75th birthday of 'Tarzan's' chimpanzee. I think Mr Vonnegut would love my eulogy; as he escaped before his star was eclipsed.<BR/><BR/> "What are humans really for?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com