Kurt Vonnegut is dead

The author of the unforgettable "Slaughterhouse-Five" was 84.

The NYT obit is here.

The Rascal's favorite Vonnegut quotations:

• I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
• I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
• We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
• The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.