Kurt Is Up In Heaven Now
Kurt Vonnegut died last night. Plenty of people will write tributes in the next few days, but few will be as good as what he already wrote himself:
I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, “Isaac is up in heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. 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
, 2005
, 2005
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