UU Author Kurt Vonnegut: 1922-2007

No doubt Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., would have something perfect to say about his own death. In fact, he said many of them in his writing.

Kurt Vonnegut was my particular favorite writer during high school and for quite some time after, and has always remained for me one of the best writers ever in American and world literature.

He was a Unitarian Universalist, and therefore I feel that this is a good place to mourn his passing, and to celebrate his life. He loved humanity, but didn't think too much of what people have done to each other, and to the planet. He wrote movingly about the horrors of war, which he experienced first-hand. He was funny! He could make you laugh at things you could barley stand to think about.

The trade paperbacks of his books that I purchased still sit on my bookshleves. Because I taught a course on his work in my own high school in my senior year, they are heavily marked up. I used highlighters to indicate passages on what I saw as his major themes: fate (pink), truth and lies (yellow), war and violence (orange), machines as metaphor (green).

Kurt Vonnegut is dead. So it goes.