Comments on: So It Goes

By: Kath

Kath — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:31:31 +0000

I didn’t read this post the first go round and I’m glad I found it here.

By: EVK4

EVK4 — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:40:00 +0000

My first Vonnegut experience was Breakfast of Champions — turned me off of the man completely. Only years later, after reading Cat’s Crade, S5, Bluebeard, Deadeye Dick and all the others did I go back to Breakfast of Champions. I still didn’t like it. But I love Vonnegut despite that book.

His appearance in Old School with Rodney Dangerfield is truly outstanding.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:08:00 +0000

I remember reading Slaughterhouse 5. It was suggested to me by the TA in whose class we had just finished discussing Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird. I was a skiffy fan, so it was a natural read for me. I had read Cat's Cradle before, but not S5. I was buzzing through it, more like a pleasure read than a critical one, when one of the many iterations of the phrase, "so it goes," stopped me dead in my tracks.

"Hmpf," I thought. "Someone in the story just died, and somehow I missed it." I flipped back a page or two, looking for the missing plot point, until I found this passage:

"The Advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could acheive their aim, war would become tolerable and decent. They would do well to read this book, and ponder the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died as the result of an air attack with conventional weapons. On the night of March 9th, 1945, an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,793 people. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people

So it goes."

That was over twenty years ago, and I have never forgotten that moment. The moment when I realised what barbaric animals the human race truly are. Thank you, Kurt Vonnegut, for leading me to reason.

By: Maktaaq

Maktaaq — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:44:00 +0000

Beekeeping is boring?

(Came through on a recommendation from Hebdomeros.)

By: Reya Mellicker

Reya Mellicker — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:43:00 +0000

i knew Vonnegut had a huge impact on my generation, but I’ve been amazed to read so many tributes written by people in their 20′s and 30′s. Wow. May he rest in peace.

By: some_digg_reader

some_digg_reader — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:34:00 +0000

Good post.

By: suicide_blond

suicide_blond — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:31:00 +0000

yep..the librarian noticed me checking out Slaughterhouse Five and asked..”do girls reallly read vonnegut?” i blew a bubble with my bubbleicious gum and and said..”they do now”.. and…so it goes….
good one
xoxo

By: CC

CC — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:04:00 +0000

it is times like these that i want to go buy every single peice of Vonnegut, crawl into bed and not leave until i 'have eaten' everything he wrote.

and then i muse about my lost career as a writer.. my dream when i was an angry teen... when we all thought that we could change the world

great post.. thanks!

By: Hearandnow

Hearandnow — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:51:00 +0000

As I was only recently referred to your little slice of Blogistan, I don’t want to come off as a complete doter. Nonetheless, I think this post is an absolutely beautiful homage. No doubt, ol’ Kurt is smiling in his grave at having inspired the sort of creative energy you harnessed to write such a perfect piece of prose.

-cheers