Magic & Loss

Fuck this noise

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Why waste anybody's time? I took out all my aimless wanking about Vonnegut's passing. It was worthless. Me writing about Vonnegut is like George W Bush eulogizing Gandhi. I should go paint or draw instead.


Instead, go read what some good writers have said:

Norbizness

Blue Girl

Digby

Sadly, No!

PZ

The Rude One

Tart


I kept this, though:

In Player Piano (1952) , he predicted Industrial Music. No really.




"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time."




He said so many good things, TRUE things, like:

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

and

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

and

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

and

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

and

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

and

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

and

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

and

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

and

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

He also drew an asshole with a felt tip pen. You don't need to be a blogger to be uncivil.