everything was beautiful and nothing hurt..

we held a wake last night for grand uncle kurt, the salutation for the night was "so it goes" and i did say "kurt is in heaven now..."




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i feel sad.. it was great to have him, he'd say something in an interview, we'd know he was there..


god bless you, uncle vonnegut
goodbye, blue monday
hopefully you're
lonesome no more...

• I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectacularly prolific writer and scientist, Dr. Isaac Asimov in that essentially functionless capacity. At an A.H.A. memorial service for my predecessor I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. It rolled them in the aisles. Mirth! Several minutes had to pass before something resemble solemnity could be restored.
  So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.

• My epitaph in any case? "Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt." I will have gotten off so light, whatever the heck it is that was going on.

  ¶ 2:52 AM