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In 50 years I predict his work will be studied like Mark Twain is.
a true american original.
Now they are all dead. Bukowski, Vonnegut, Asimov, Hunter Thompson
all my favorite writers are dead. fuck I feel old.
from the NY Times Obit
He also shared with Twain a profound pessimism. “Mark Twain,” Mr. Vonnegut wrote in his 1991 book, “Fates Worse Than Death” “finally stopped laughing at his own agony and that of those around him. He denounced life on this planet as a crock. He died.”
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