カート・ヴォネガット死去

▼Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 - 2007)　（Fantasy and Science Fiction News - SFWA News Site）
http://www.sfwa.org/news/2007/kvonnegut.htm

Writer and artist, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died Wednesday, March 11, 2007, following brain injury received in a fall at his Manhattan home a few weeks earlier.

▼Author Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84　（CNN.com）
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/obit.vonnegut/index.html

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Kurt Vonnegut, whose absurdist visions and cynical outlook infused such books as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," has died. He was 84.

Vonnegut died at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital at 9:45 p.m. ET Wednesday, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.

Vonnegut had been hospitalized for several weeks after suffering brain injuries following a fall at his East Side Manhattan home.

　とうとう、このジョークを言わなければならない日がやってきてしまった。では、故人の希望どおりに言わせてもらうことにする――「カートはいま天国におります」

　ありがとう、ヴォネガット。あなたは、おれがこのとんでもない世界で生きていられる理由をくれた偉大な作家のひとりだ。おつかれさまでした、“戦友”よ。

　Do be do be do.

　So it goes.