Read some Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and learn learn learn

[Eliot Rosewater]

“I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

[dlk]

1. I Had the Pleasure of Meeting Vonnegut Some Years Ago

He was a wonderful writer and one of a kind.

[klook]

5. Lucky you. I saw him speak once.

He was funny, of course, and kind, and sad, and very open to new ideas, even late in life. He’s been a major influence on me, and I’m glad his ideas continue to resonate.

[lunasun]

2. I read most when young , although they had been out for a long time, i for some reason remember

what I later found out were his earlier books piano player cats cradle sirens of titans a lot more than his later works like deadeye dick or slapstick but I have read them all and am better for it
Just the ones written before my time stuck with me more
& Of course I remember you Eliot Rosewater
I was trying to remember the last book out it was essays and found this

Requiem (ending)
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.

–Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005

[dweller]

3. rec'd

for this quote...

✌🏼

[geardaddy]

6. My absolute favorite author

Saw him speak at my college once. He influenced me in so many ways.

[Doc_Technical]

7. "Poo-tee-weet"