All my favorite authors had better hurry up and stop dying.
I wonder if Kurt and Hunter are having drinks yet?
I saw Kurt Vonnegut speak in 1996. It was simply amazing. A few minutes into his talk my cousin turned to me and quietly asked,
“Is he drunk?”
He most certainly was. Despite the fact that he was obviously three sheets to the wind Vonnegut slurred his way through one of the most touching and hilarious speeches Ive ever heard. At 16 years of age it was topicaly on point for me. The thrust of his talk spoke to the idea that as a culture we dont offer our children an true coming of age ritual. Because of this our children our forced to create their own. What do adults do? They have children, have sex, take drugs, drink.
He was funny, sweet, caring and drunk.
And Kurt Vonnegut was without a doubt a truly stunning writer.
