Kurt Vonnegut- “He’s up in Heaven now.”

This is not a problem novel post, but I really need to put this post up.  I have some other posts in the works however, so no worries.

My favorite author and author of my favorite book Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut died.  My friend told me last night.  I cried a bit.  So it goes.

I know he wasn’t exactly young, but it was still a shock.  Ironically enough, I just reread God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian a few days ago, a book where Vonnegut is brought to near death by Dr. Kevorkian so he can interview people in heaven.  I just hate the idea of people dying and all of their ideas, their imagination, their mind is gone from this world.  I just wonder what else could have been created by that mind.  I grieve that lost insight. 

Below is an excerpt from the introduction of God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian:

I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectacularly prolific writer and scientist, Dr. Isaac Asimov in that essentially functionless capacity.  At an A.H.A. memorial service for my predecessor I said, “Isaac is up in Heaven now.”  That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists.  It rolled them in the aisles.  Mirth!  Several minutes had to pass before something resembling solemnity could be restored….So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say, “He’s up in Heaven now.”  Who really knows?  I could have dreamed all this.