There is a good news and a bad news. The good news is that a new book from Kurt Vonnegut has been recently published. The bad news, as many of you already know, is that Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11th, 2007. But the funny thing with writers is that they never stop talking:even when you put a couple of meters of dust on top of them their books keep talking on their behalf. A lot of people is happy that Vonnegut keeps talking; others, like those guys at Fox News who broadcasted a shameful obituary the day he died would prefer to put an additional twenty thousand meters of dust on top of him - so it goes.
The book is a collection of twelve of his writings which subjects are war and peace and includes a beautiful introduction written by his son Mark. I understand that Fox News, which was and still is the media that most supported the war in Iraq may find slightly annoying that someone could say - and from the very beginning - the simple truth about it, which is that it was a terrible mistake; nevertheless (ops! I used a semicolon.... Vonnegut wouldn't be happy about it) and unfortunately, there is still a big need to say it and Vonnegut knew how to say it in a brilliant way. With this book he keeps on saying it from below those two meters of dust, probably while smoking a Pall Mall.
The day he died, on his website there was this drawing of an open cage - the bird gone, free at last. The cage is empty, which is a good news. But without Vonnegut we feel a bit empty too, which is a bad news instead. And so it goes.
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