Billy Pilgrim died.
His death was recorded either 60 years ago or 1000 years from now. He’d been diagnosed for some time with chrono-synclastic infundibula. Services have already been held (or will be held) at the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent (Manhattan branch) followed (or preceded) by a Bokononism ceremony on the lawn.
By presidential edict, over the objections of his friends and family, his remains were put into a Copper Café Au Lait Titanium 3000 Casket and shot by NASA to rendezvous with Skylab. It includes a permanent holographic image of Pilgrim saying his famous catch phrase that got him banned from "I Got a Line" in the late 1950's:
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/leonard
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01159.html
Billy Pilgrim, so it goes
Moderator: Balou
