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Kurt Vonnegut died last night. [Bow your head for a moment of silence].

He wrote what we needed to read:

1. our truths masked as someone else’s;
2. our folly put into focus;
3. our world as it was, without forsaking what it could be.

I still re-read Mother Night. Breakfast of Champions helped me survive a deep depression my 3rd year of college.

If we made Slaughterhouse Five mandatory reading in high school, we’d be able to revive the publishing industry and develop some really smart kids.

The NYT obit

A nice piece over on Salon by Andrew Leonard. Leonard played chess with him as a boy. I now have to be jealous of Andrew Leonard.