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Discuss “Kurt Vonnegut, novelist and former CIT student, dies ”

Kurt Vonnegut’s official website currently features a framed picture of an open birdcage, drawn in his trademark squiggly black ink, with his name and life span beneath. The site has no links to a short biography, bibliography, tour dates, or contact information. Like his novels, Vonnegut’s website was both simple and profound in delivering its latest message: Last Wednesday, writer Kurt Vonnegut died in Manhattan. He was 84.

The author of novels such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Sirens of Titan died as a result of brain injuries sustained during a fall several weeks ago, according to an April 12 article in The New York Times.

Vonnegut is known for his lighthearted approach to questions that have plagued human existence,...

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