And said, “Vonnegut! Fuck!”

4/11 was the first anniversary of his death. A little history:

Vonnegut called himself a religious skeptic, and disbelieved in the supernatural.^[30] He considered religious doctrine to be “so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash,” and believed people were motivated by loneliness to join religions.^[37]

Vonnegut played himself in a cameo in 1986’s Back to School, in which he is hired by Rodney Dangerfield’s Thornton Melon to write a paper on the topic of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Recognizing the work as not Melon’s own, Professor Turner tells him, “Whoever did write this doesn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut.”

Following his death, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central gave Vonnegut a small tribute frame before the closing credits with his own famous phrase on death–”so it goes”. There is also a short clip of him being interviewed by Jon Stewart, in which he claims that gonorrhea, giraffes and hippopotami are evidence of evolution being controlled by a divine power. This is also a theme used in his print artwork. Confetti print #26 states “Evolution is so creative. That’s how come we got giraffes and the clap.”

He has stalled finishing his highly anticipated novel If God Were Alive Today?or so he claims

“I’ve given up on it … It won’t happen. … The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people’s discharges and stuff. And my feeling was, ‘Please, I’ve done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?’ That’s what I feel right now. I’ve written books. Lots of them. Please, I’ve done everything I’m supposed to do. Can I go home now?”

Vonnegut died at the age of 84 on April 11, 2007, in Manhattan after a fall at his Manhattan home several weeks prior resulted in irreversible brain injuries.^[2][18][19]

So it goes.