Thursday, April 12, 2007
So it goes...
Author Kurt Vonnegut, who influenced me and many in my generation, has passed on into the next dimension.
When I was in high school, I read every book of his I could get my hands on. Our school did a stage version of some of his short stories titled "Welcome to the Monkey House." One of our alumni played Billy Pilgrim in the movie version of Slaugherhouse Five.
Hell. I grew up in Schenectady, for Gods' sakes.
And I'm going to be back in Schenectady on Monday, for the first time in 25 years.
I never got the chance to meet him, and given what I know about him, I probably wouldn't have liked him much in person. But his words helped shape a younger version of me, back in the day.
So it goes.
When I was in high school, I read every book of his I could get my hands on. Our school did a stage version of some of his short stories titled "Welcome to the Monkey House." One of our alumni played Billy Pilgrim in the movie version of Slaugherhouse Five.
Hell. I grew up in Schenectady, for Gods' sakes.
And I'm going to be back in Schenectady on Monday, for the first time in 25 years.
I never got the chance to meet him, and given what I know about him, I probably wouldn't have liked him much in person. But his words helped shape a younger version of me, back in the day.
So it goes.
# posted by Loren Davidson @ 7:46 AM 
