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# Kurt Vonnegut is Still Alive
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2664/
- Published: 2005-10-12T15:13:16.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-12T15:13:16.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Still alive and still unhappy. [*WaPo* Link](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/11/AR2005101101844.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

> He's seen *Slaughterhouse-Five* get the Hollywood treatment. He's seen it selected No. 18 on the Modern Library's list of the hundred best English-language novels of the 20th century and *Cat's Cradle* anointed by Yale critic Harold Bloom as part of the "Western canon." And he's written more than a dozen additional books, among them *Breakfast of Champions*, *Slapstick*, *Galapagos*, *Hocus Pocus* and *Timequake*, which have been published -- this is putting it gently -- to diminishing critical acclaim.

Yet, despite such success, the unhappy snarl is still there:

> "I think human beings are awful animals," he says. "Let's pack it in. Let's stop reproducing. We're wrecking the place."

> \[H\]e asserts that the subject of all great books is "what a bummer it is to be a human being."

Thankfulness is a terrible thing to waste.