So It Goes

In Memory of Kurt Vonnegut, his last appearance on Jon Stewart.

At the end of his interview, Vonnegut wanted to read a List, but they ran out of time. Here's the List:

LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN

* Give us this day our daily bread. Oh sure.
* Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Nobody better trespass against me. I'll tell you that.
* Blessed are the meek.
* Blessed are the merciful. You mean we can't use torture?
* Blessed are the peacemakers. Jane Fonda?
* Love your enemies - Arabs?
* Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. The hell I can't! Look at the Reverend Pat Robertson. And He is as happy as a pig in s**t.

(Via onegoodmove)

The NY Times, Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84, obit notes:

His last book, in 2005, was a collection of biographical essays, “A Man Without a Country.” It, too, was a best seller.

In concludes with a poem written by Mr. Vonnegut called “Requiem,” which has these closing lines:

When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.

See also, PBS' NOW. Arts & Culture. Kurt Vonnegut and NPR's Remembrance: Novelist Vonnegut Remembered for His Black Humor

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"Though he was a vocal religious skeptic, Vonnegut wrote in that final essay collection that 'if I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: 'The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.''"

~From NPR's Remembrance

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