RIP Mr. Vonnegut

I've sat here the majority of the morning attempting to write something worthy enough as some form a remembrance for Kurt Vonnegut. Granted I've only read a few of his works, but that's more due to time constraints and constantly reading then on the works themselves. What I have read I have enjoyed immensely, and he is truly a one of a kind American and easily in the top ten most interesting people of the 20th century, least for me he is.

His mother committed suicide on mother's day, he was a Nazi prisoner of war in Dresden and witnessed the Dresden bombing first hand. In fact he was one of only seven American POWs to survive the bombing. He adopted three of the four children of his sister after she died of cancer and her husband died in a train wreck, all in the same week. He is without a doubt one of the most influential American writers of the last century, and even played himself in Back To School with Rodney Dangerfield, writing a paper...about himself.

When people say, "They broke the mold when he was bored." it definitely can be said about Kurt Vonnegut. I mean who can argue with a man who said,

"If you really want to disappoint your parents, and don't have the nerve to be gay, go into the arts."

The man revered Mark Twain as an American saint, who can argue, and in a way foretold his death in Vonnegut style. Kilgore Trout, who many view as the projection of himself, dies at the age of eighty-four, the same age Kurt was. I don't know if I can do this man any can of literary justice what so ever so I'm gonna stop attempting to do so. All I can say is thank you for giving us such masterpieces...

"George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography....[about 2004 election]no matter which one wins, we will have a Skull and Bones President at a time when entire vertebrate species, because of how we have poisoned the topsoil, the waters and the atmosphere, are becoming, hey presto, nothing but skulls and bones."-Kurt Vonnegut from A Man Without A Country