One of the best of all American writers - I'd put him up with Twain - has died, leaving us all the poorer.
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Very sad.
I was kind of expecting this, however.
Don't be too sad. Taking the fourth-dimensional point of view of the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five, he is gone in this moment. But he is still present in many other moments.
His genius is still present in his books.
"The only way I know God exists is through music" He did not claim it to be his opwn, but thought this would be his perfect epitaph.
And so it goes -----
Bill Grundy Melbourne Australia