4/12/2007

So it goes

He used this quote numerous times,often in connection with things that could not be changed. The reason? Maybe it helped him to made the notion of death and mortality a little bit more bearable. Who knows? Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the great American writer, died yesterday. His „Slaughterhouse-Five“ is based on significant events of his life, especially the witnessing of the bombing of Dresden (which killed more than 135,000 people) when he was a prisoner of the German Army.

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