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As I write this, today is Kurt Vonnegut’s birthday, the first we’ll celebrate without him, or at least without his body, since he quietly passed into whatever comes after this life last April. I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere, one that Kurt would’ve enjoyed, but I’m not ready just yet to laugh in his absence.
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Davis, T. (2009). Flabbergasted. In: Simmons, D. (eds) New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100817_1
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