Watched a documentary about #Vonnegut last night, “Man Unstuck In Time”, it was tender and sweet and mostly about how much the director missed his friend. It made me realize 2 things:
1. I have had the fortune of knowing some amazing people from Indiana, @adr amongst them. 2. I am very much a product of the 20th century. #bookstodon

@simsa03 I first heard Glenn Gould play Bach on the soundtrack of the movie Slaughterhouse Five, about 1975. I saw the movie because I had read all of Vonnegut's books (in print at that time). Gould on the soundtrack may have been what led me to Bach's music in the first place. I'm not absolutely sure: 46 years ago. Gould playing Bach triggers the manic twitch in my body. I vibrate and my hands become sockpuppet piano players. #GlennGould #Vonnegut #SlaughterhouseFive

"...That wonderful Mandarax you're scratching your ear with now: what is that but an excuse for a mean-spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?" (2/2) #books #bookstodon #vonnegut

Today's quote, from Vonnegut's Galapagos:
"You...think that everybody but yourself is just taking up space on this planet, and we make too much noise and waste valuable resources and have too many children and leave garbage around. So it would be a much nicer place if the few stupid services we are able to perform for the likes of you were taken over by machinery..." (1/2) #books #bookstodon #Vonnegut

@wendypalmer @tanoujin @dangillmor all my books, antiquarian or not, go into little libraries for kids to discover, 10 cents or $100 , I don't care, out they go to people.

If I cared about what was near my corpse when I die; 20,000 leagues, Snowcrash, #Ringworld, #Lovecraft, #Vonnegut #ToSayNothingOfTheDog, #Murderbot and #NaomiNovikbooka I suppose with lots of other stuff available!

#GiveAwayBooks

Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter.

#vonnegut

I watched #babylon5 from beginning to end, twice (First time as it aired), without making the Zathras / #Vonnegut connection

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1461238/

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,' I said, 'but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive."

Kurt #Vonnegut. Mother night.

Jonathan Demme Turns the Kurt #Vonnegut Story, “Who Am I This Time?,” Into a #TV #Movie, with Susan Sarandon & Christopher Walken in Starring Roles (1982) https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/jonathan-demme-turns-the-kurt-vonnegut-story-who-am-i-this-time.html
>In 1982, the #PBS #American Playhouse series aired Jonathan Demme's made-for-TV film based on the Kurt Vonnegut #story, 'Who Am I This Time?' Now, thanks to the #YouTube channel Chicken Soup for the Soul TV, you can watch the rarely-seen #film online.

#literature #theatre #entertainment #openculture #susansarandon

@jacintolloret Fans de #Vonnegut siempre en mi equipo! 🛸

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” #Vonnegut

@charlotteclymer
So powerful.
As you often do…hit me in my bruised soul…
& eyes watered…

The truth…sounds different…than often spread propaganda!
When I first read “Brave New World”…often #vonnegut …
It’s was w/o the “fear”…now…they feel…present.
Thanks for all you do.

Are there any cool podcasts out there discussing Stephen King novels? I fell in love with having a Kurt Vonneguy's Podcast to check out after reading each of Kurt's books and would love more of that sort of thing.

#StephenKing #Podcast #Vonnegut

This is nice

Most college commencement speeches are entirely disposable, but Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to college graduates still resonates today. #Vonnegut

https://www.openforum.com.au/forums/this-is-nice/

How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

– Kurt Vonnegut, in “Slaughterhouse-Five”

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If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

– Kurt Vonnegut, in “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”

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#wabisabi #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #prose #fiction #storytelling #photography #vonnegut #quote
https://lorabaccus.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/wabi-sabi/

"The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of some service." --Mark Vonnegut, Introduction to "Armageddon in Retrospect" by Kurt #Vonnegut.

I should just get a tattoo of this.

Just the first three words of #catscradle knocked my socks off. No idea why I waited so long to read it. #vonnegut #bookstodon

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.” Kurt #Vonnegut

#QuoteOutOfContext