Comments on: The Paris Review Vonnegut Interviews http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/04/27/the-paris-review-vonnegut-interviews/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:26:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Booth http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/04/27/the-paris-review-vonnegut-interviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1874 Jim Booth Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:26:57 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=286#comment-1874 Michael, Well, to quote the guy Sam lambasted in his comment, we'll get on that literary blog thing "right after the war with the goddam Eskimos...." Michael,

Well, to quote the guy Sam lambasted in his comment, we’ll get on that literary blog thing “right after the war with the goddam Eskimos….”

]]> By: Sam Smith http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/04/27/the-paris-review-vonnegut-interviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1873 Sam Smith Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:16:47 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=286#comment-1873 Yeah, we'll get right on that in all our spare time... Yeah, we’ll get right on that in all our spare time…

]]> By: Michael "Ubertramp" Pecaut http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/04/27/the-paris-review-vonnegut-interviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1872 Michael "Ubertramp" Pecaut Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:30:27 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=286#comment-1872 I think I'm almost one of the six. Time will tell if I'm one of the two. Haha. I love that line, though, about literature. "Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak." Hahaha. That's friggin classic! And I have to agree with him. :) Hey Guys. How come you guys don't have a version of S&R for fiction, poetry, whatever? Insist on being read. :) I think I’m almost one of the six. Time will tell if I’m one of the two. Haha. I love that line, though, about literature. “Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.” Hahaha. That’s friggin classic! And I have to agree with him. :)

Hey Guys. How come you guys don’t have a version of S&R for fiction, poetry, whatever? Insist on being read. :)

]]> By: Sam Smith http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/04/27/the-paris-review-vonnegut-interviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1871 Sam Smith Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:54:50 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=286#comment-1871 I know that people die all the time. Famous people die all the time. Talented people and influential people die all the time. But in a comparatively short span we've lost Hunter Thompson, David Halberstam, Ahmet Ertegun, Gordon Parks, and now Vonnegut. Maybe this is nothing unusual - I only notice it because these deaths align with some of my interests. But we're in no position to be losing people like Vonnegut, people whose talents legitimately make the world a better place. Of course, Vonnegut's death makes me think about those who are squandering that same ability - anybody heard from Salinger lately? I know that people die all the time. Famous people die all the time. Talented people and influential people die all the time. But in a comparatively short span we’ve lost Hunter Thompson, David Halberstam, Ahmet Ertegun, Gordon Parks, and now Vonnegut. Maybe this is nothing unusual – I only notice it because these deaths align with some of my interests. But we’re in no position to be losing people like Vonnegut, people whose talents legitimately make the world a better place.

Of course, Vonnegut’s death makes me think about those who are squandering that same ability – anybody heard from Salinger lately?

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