bemuse |biˈmyoōz| verb [ trans. ] [usu. as adj. ] ( bemused). ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from be- (as an intensifier) + muse .

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!

 

 

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One Response

  1. 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

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