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[beachlass]

Kurt Vonnegut is dead. I started reading Vonnegut when I was in high school, many moons ago. I read and re-read Vonnegut until my early-20's... probably Bluebeard was the last book of his I read. Growing up in small town Ontario, Vonnegut was so removed and yet so very true, with his odd characters and even odder stories. I expect that Vonnegut shaped my taste in literature, sharpened my appreciation for highlighting the absurd, and then adding on seventeen more layers of craziness, all with a deft and defiant touch for language and a piercing insightfulness and compassion. Well done sir, thanks for the words.

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Things are good - just the usual amount of drama - broken water heater, brake work on the car, living with kids. I've been catching up at work, and not studying/procrastinating school work, so been online a bit less.

Authors/Books Unread would make a good meme, I think.