I adore Vonnegut. I feel blessed for having had the ability to read and, then, to have been privileged, as all above in this thread, to have read his books. He was a man of true wisdom, who had no qualms about sharing it. I just came from what's left of the Virginia Tech thread. The juxtaposition is mind-blowing. What would Vonnegut have thought of that? Actually, it's all in his work already. Rest, peacefully!