Erdos Had The Number First

Kurt Vonnegut is Dead. I was first introduced to his work when I read “Cat’s Cradle” in high school. I read a bunch of his stuff, and found him to be an insightful author and commentator.

I also found him to be an inspiration to my own writing. He said once that

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Now there is a man I can admire. I’ll leave you just with this:

I read you died last night
and sighed
and laughed and though well
at least I'd read you
your books
and heard you talk and
had nodded in such agreement
with your speeches and your prose
and laughed in astonishment
at your insight and so it goes
but now I sigh
again
this time in sadness
because I did not get to
do any of those things with you
so now I'll play one of Prokofiev's ballets
and dream
of the Indianapolis of your youth
it is the least I can do.