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Reader Comments (16)Page 1 of 1 pagesAww schucks! I must have been too late.
So it goes.
Posted by Kevin Hatton on Mar 24, 2003 at 4:03 PM Dear Kurt, thanx for the column.
when do you think that yanks will accurately recall that you entered both world wars when they were fait accompli ? i love you guys, especially Mike Moore, but don’tcha recollect that we thumped you in 1812, and those little guys in black PJs handed you yer nuts in ‘75 ?
What is it with yanks and power and control ?
Posted by Richard on Mar 24, 2003 at 10:35 PM Mr Vonnegut, “Rent-a-tent, ren-a-tent” maybe Mr. Bush took the Mars vs earth plan seriously. Leo
Posted by leo ouimet on Mar 25, 2003 at 7:11 AM That’s a great question from Seamus; I’d add to that,Seamus,NEVER lose that fantastic idealism of yours-- it’s the very stuff of our spirit. everything starts with a dream,it’s always been this way; idealism matures with its interaction with our daily experience--hopefully,rather than getting crushed by it--and could oftentimes bring forth wonderful things,like novel approaches and solutions to problems. Idealism is the “alchemical” output of the heart and mind working together to bring forth something of the spirit,something truly inspired. And its idealism like yours that may save us from the dreadful state we find ourselves in currently. like Mr. Vonnegut states,idealism gave us the Constitution,which is at the heart of America. I don’t think there’s any “idealism” left in such a corrupt governemnt as this,or at the very least in the Bush Administration,but we can and will conquer. Don’t ever lose it. harvest it with action,whatever comes from your heart.
Posted by Ariel X on Mar 25, 2003 at 12:47 PM hey there. Frank sent me an article by these guys on Tyco international and the backlash against corporate inversion transactions. he said that I should check out this website, so i did. Anyway, i thought you might like it as well. Plus, the advise column is ariten by Kurt Vonnegut. Enjoy.
J
p.s. how are things? It has been a while.
Posted by Brittany on Mar 27, 2003 at 2:41 PM I am the walrus and I will not forget it… one day chipmunks should run the world so we can be free to run into the woods. Kurt rules!
Posted by Chris on Mar 30, 2003 at 1:32 AM Dear Kurt,
Hope you don’t mind me being a bit vulgar and familiar by using your first rather than familial name. However, having read much of your earlier books, and having received so much pleasure and psychic affirmation through their magic, I feel rather familiar with you. You can call me Dom if you ever wish to correspond. I really have no questions for you. I’m 54 years old and came to that moment of enlightenment, years ago, as I was painting one of my very first pictures that one must be one’s own inquisitor AND problem solver. That is not to say that I am in no need of other people’s expertise or insights into the various disciplines men and women grow to master. I am a great listener because I realize just how very little I know about everything. So I pick things up on the fly, so to speak, store them in that dustbin of a repository called, “memory”, wherever that is, and proceed in my undertakings using my own, on the spot solutions. I am a very obscure artist but that too is a condition I welcome rather than disparage about myself. I know my work is good because even though it doesn’t sell much, whenever I saw fit to give someone a painting or print they almost invariably kept it hanging in their homes for long elapses of change. So, that’s it. Just wanted to wish you the best and to tell you that you and Henry Miller have been my favorite authors over the years.
Posted by Dom Mastroserio on Mar 30, 2003 at 6:50 PM Henry Winkler repeatedly raped child-star fellow cast member Erin ?hundreds of times during the production of Happy Days series. She was 14 years old at the time, Winkler “the Fonz” was 22. Her life sank thereafter into drug and alcohol abuse and institutionalization. He has never been taken to task for his crimes. Catholic priests are properly jailed decades after their child rape convictions. Shouldn,t something be done about Winkler?
Posted by Samantha H. on Apr 3, 2003 at 10:23 AM I was just reading an article in ‘The Nation’ by Juliet Johnson titled
“A Lesson in Diplomacy” which mentions C students in relation to the current administration. I just had a thought. If Oregon believes they can stop all protests by outlawing them as they are trying to do Today, perhaps citizens could use the current absence of the Charter of Freedoms and Rights to their advantage. Specifically, banning all members of the Bush administration from procreation. Yes, I mean it, render the men and women sterile (let them spend some time with their ‘Dirty Bombs’ they dropped in Iraq and Afghanistan. After all, since they claim this never happened then they should have no problem going down). I addition to sterilization, the spouses of the administration should also be rendered sterile and any children they already have should be subject to some post-birth abortion technique. I mean if you Americans want to revert to some 16th Century secualar european feudal system, may as well bring back the Eunich’s! And nothing scares me more than knowing some day, more Bush assholes will be running around.
Posted by Proud Canuck on Apr 3, 2003 at 12:00 PM What a great drawing of Kurt by the honourable Mr Steadman!!!!
It always makes me sooooo happy to find new drawings.....
Draw more…
Bye bye...got to draw....
Posted by stoove on Apr 10, 2003 at 10:31 AM We feel kind of unconfortable because of the american media behavior during the invasion of Iraq. It seems like we will never going to believe on most of american media coverage again (except, of course, “Im these times"). But, do they care about the ousiders point of view?
Posted by ZÛcalo newspaper on Apr 10, 2003 at 5:40 PM i typed up a nicely worded paragraph but unfortunately it bacame ones and zeros. my class is cur?rent?ly reading slaughterhouse- five and we have found it very unusual. Irony and symbolism are beginning to emerge as we struggle though the book. Did you deliberately hide the literary elements so it could add up to something? olnv?boioin olnv?boioin olnv?boioin olnv?boioin olnv?boioin olnv?boioin olnv?boioin
Posted by vega on Apr 13, 2003 at 9:53 PM Dear Mr. Vonnegut, I was very tempted to ask wheter or not you have or are in the process of creating a new book but then if you happened to read one of my comments about re-reading some authors I mentioned, not including your name on that list, I thought the question might smack of indifferent curiosity, (now isn’t that an admirable oxymoron?), so rather than ask that, I will ask you to refresh my memory in reference to your personal bibliography I have relocated so many times and have lent out so many books that were never returned, etc, etc. I know I’ve read at least five or six but would like to pick some up which have been lost in the memory black hole of advancing senility. Besides informing me about these titles, it would help others to perhaps be tempted to actually read you. (Every true author being either a surreptitious or outright autobiographer). As are most true artists. Whoops, almost started talking about objectivity and subjectivity, inner and outer, and all those other consubstantial philosophical eternal bones to knaw upon. I personally have to go along with Emerson and Montaigne about self-reliance while admiring the work of past sages, seeing how these states of personal conduct are not mutually exclusive. But really, can you or your secretary give us a list of all or at least the novel form of your books and/or essays?
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