Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, I admire how you spill words as sour or acidic as they may sound, and at times as self-deprecating as lime-proof rust growing like moss in underwater echoing sewage canals. The banal and the glorious and the beautiful, you tell it as it is and for that I greatly admire your vulnerability, courage and humanity.
I wanted to jot down some passages that resonated with me thus far.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Make them stop…don’t let them move anymore at all…there make them freeze…once and for all… So that they won’t disappear anymore!

I blog about being Vonnegut’s biographer, if you’re interested, at http://www.writingkurtvonnegut.com
Best,
Charles J. Shields
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life (Holt, November)
July 2, 2011 at 2:10 AM