Vonnegut (1922-2007)

don doggett · 13 Apr 2007, 17:22 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:22:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Vonnegut (1922-2007)
In-Reply-To: <53ECE009-6EDE-4E46-8AA1-DF1EAF1ADDBE at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <875716.40211.qm at web32412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

> > brunians at brunians.org snarked:
> >
> >> Not his fault, I suppose, that atheism is so much
> >> less interesting than Christianity.

This makes me think of the Chinese curse: "May you
live in interesting times."

> On Apr 13, 2007, at 10:26 AM, stilskin wrote:
> 
> > To Christians, perhaps.

Oh, I don't know. I have a lot of affinity for
Christianity as my cultural base. It's as good a
religion as any. But it gets to be pretty tiresome in
fiction after a while.

--- Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:

> To people who enjoy stories.
> 
> "Stuff happened" is much inferior to "Someone made
> stuff happen"
> 
> Matthew

"Stuff happened" is almost everything. "Someone made
stuff happen" is usually laid over it by people trying
to make sense of that "stuff". Christians hardly have
a lock on interesting fiction, nor are athiests
excluded from it.

Don

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