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="Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful."=

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11th, 1922 and passed away April 11th, 2007. He was 84 years old. Vonnegut was an American Novelist who liked to bend the mold. He liked to bring out the humor in situations, he gave character to the issues that he cared about, Vonnegut used fantasy and science fiction to represent the horrors of 20th century civilization. He had experienced first hand the effects of war. Vonnegut was a POW in Germany during the bombing of Dresden. His experiences were the basis for his book// Slaughterhouse-Five.// Vonnegut refers to the war in Dresden,Germany as the Children's' crusade, attributing to the fact that like most others he was just a child serving in the army.


 * "You know - we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. Whe****n I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God - " I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade."**

Vonnegut was a satirist, he was known for his sarcasm, and was said to have had a "dark comic talent". His works included :

Player Piano (1952) The Sirens Of Titan (1959) Mother Night (1961) Cat's Cradle ( 1963) God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (1965) Slaughterhouse- Five (1969) - [began Vonneguts label of a "science fiction" writer] Breakfast of champions (1973) Slapstick (1976) Jailbird (1976) Deadeye Dick (1982) Galapagos (1985) Bluebeard (1987) Hocus pocus (1989) Timequake (1997)
 * Novels**

Canary in a Cat House (1961) Welcome to The Monkey House (1968) Bagombo Snuff Box (1999)
 * Short stories**

Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
 * Scripts**

Beside his successful writing career Vonnegut also appreciated artwork. Most notably graphic design. Which he picked up after his notorious doodles and designs that appear in //Slaughterhouse- Five// and //Breakfast Of Champions//. He created an album cover for Phish "Hook line and sinker" that has been included in a traveling exhibition in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.

Vonnegut was a Literary idol of the 60's and 70's. He broke through and made his own genre of writing. Vonnegut may have been criticized by some, but in the end all that mattered were those who appreciated his works, and his unconventional style of writing. They can only hope that Vonnegut has become, unstuck in time.



Quotations
"So it goes.."; used multiple times throughout Slaughterhouse-Five, this quotation was used as comic relief and showed the inevitability of situations as seen by Vonnegut. (pg.?) Vonnegut, //Slaughterhouse-Five//

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." Kurt Vonnegut

"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." Vonnegut, //Breakfast of Champions//

"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber." Vonnegut, //Slaughterhouse- Five//

Links
[|www.Vonnegutweb.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crPrPpAaRXo