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Tag Archives: Kurt Vonnegut
“And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, ‘Kurt is up in heaven now.’ That’s my favorite joke.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut talks to readers about the meaning of life
Kurt Vonnegut is undeniably funny, and so is A Man Without a Country. But Vonnegut’s sort-of-memoir goes beyond wry witticism. He distills all that he has learned in his decades on this planet into this one short book. It’s a … Continue reading
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Death Saying, Hurt, Kurt Vonnegut, Quotes, Quotes about Life, SevenPonds, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“2BRO2B” by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. plays with complex themes of aging and death in his 1962 short story “2BRO2B”
On the surface, 2BRO2B is an incredibly dark satire portraying a bleak future where death is militantly maintained by the government. As we are introduced to a futuristic society in which death and aging has been cured, and the population … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Aging and Elder Care, anti-agin, Art, Kurt Vonnegut, Light on Aging and Dying, Literature, Mural, Vonnegut, World Literature
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