Rest, Kurt, rest.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1922 - 2007

Vonnegut was the first writer to really inspire me – During my teenage years, his words were things to savagely devour. As I grew older, they became like old friends to revisit time and time again. I am saddened by his passing. So it goes.

This is the final line of my favorite book Cat’s Cradle.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.