A wonderful 38ft mural of the late great KURT VONNEGUT - who left us 19yrs ago today - in his hometown of Indianapolis.

April 11, 2026 - 08:40 UTC

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Just quoted him - a line I read in my youth, and derided. Now I know what it meant: maturity is knowing what your limitations are. In my 80’s, yeah, limitations. I’m adjusting. Thanks for the heads up!,,,,
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He spoke at my college graduation in the early 90s…pretty sure he was hammered too.
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🙏❤️
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Indiana “artist Pamela Bliss painted the 38-foot-tall work”
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Kurt introduced me to Humanism. It's a gift I can never repay.
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One of my most favourite ever authors ❤️❤️❤️
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Frickin luv him…
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He was truly a giant thinker in America who was ahead of his time.
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Got to meet him and server him dinner once in the mid-90’s. Great guy…
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I loved this man as a writer and humanist. Still missed.
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This guy's writing changed my life.
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So it goes.
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I think it is wonderful that someone realized that a mural doesn't have to be a rectangle to be a positive image!
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Farting and tap dancing.
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No disrespect to Kurt but I thought this was Mark Marin at first glance.
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What a photo! That car looks like a toy.
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This artwork amazes me
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Love seeing this on my weekend coffee trips downtown ❤️
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"Mother Night," mentioned far less often than "Slaughterhouse Five," will always be one of my favorites.
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I voraciously consumed everything he wrote.
Sadly I combined this consuming vast amounts of grass & therefore can't remember anything apart from Slaughter house & Tang 🤣🌬️
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Breakfast of. Champions*😊
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Cat's cradle.
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Saw him speak at a Chicago book fair panel and was sad to find him being an asshole. Love his work, tho
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Vonnegut was actually only about half that tall.
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"Life~Sized!"
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I visited Indy and saw that last month. Also good: the Vonnegut museum a few blocks away. Actually, it's better than good. I loved it! RIP Kurt.
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I painted The Mud Prayer on my bedroom wall.
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A favorite author. A Man Without Country written during the W fiasco. Just as true today.
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I was Indy earlier this week, saw it, and didn’t bother to check who it was. Good to know!
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so it goes…
The library/museum just announced a kickstarter campaign for a Tralfmafadorian immersive exhibit.
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In the dome
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Slaughterhouse-Five is still one of my favorite novels.
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A friend recently sent me this. I think the cat approves.
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@anhourofplay.bsky.social ✨
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I saw that in person when I was in Indianapolis for onboarding with ExactTarget/Salesforce many moons ago. Made me fall in love with Indianapolis pretty quick.
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Rented a tent
A tent
A tent
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Still chanted in my household regularly! Also loved the chapter title, “Tent Rentals.”
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Marvellous work
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Never forget when he said we might be the first generation not to save the earth because it isn’t cost effective. Has stuck with me. Is still true.
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Reading ‘Breakfast of Champions’ right now - almost done. I’ve been talking to Kurt in my head for a while now.
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That's so freakin awesome.
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The old man in the brothel; one day it will end
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He was right - it is the 'chemicals'
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Well deserved tribute. 🙌🏻
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“If this isn’t nice, what is?”
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This mural is right next to
The Chatterbox jazz bar
that got national news last year!
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I just finished Player Piano. Perhaps even more prescient now in the age of AI than it was even then.

A giant of literature even larger than that mural represents.
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SH-🖐️
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His “Shapes of Stories” lecture is timeless

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
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I loved his books. Breakfast of Champions is a favorite.
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"the sons of suicide find life lacking." -mark vonnegut (his son), 'the eden express'
youtu.be/UgYkRBvStkM?si=4cxvLwubvE3GZq3Q
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“if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” Kurt
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Good advice

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNE4TC2disU
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He was in one of my favorite movies!
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😆 Probably not the cameo in this one?
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‘Hocus Pocus’ rocks!
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"And so it goes ..."
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I still haven't forgiven him for the cat in "Player Piano."
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Ah. Never read that. My admiration rests almost 100% on Slaughterhouse-Five.
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Hi Ho
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A great American author.
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There should be a Saab parked on parking lot, to be even better :)

www.saabplanet.com/vonnegut-saab/
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Thank you for sharing this!
😍😍😍
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He was brilliant. Loved everything he wrote.
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And so it goes.
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So it goes...
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Slaughterhouse 5
Indianapolis 500

☺️
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My Man.
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Hoosier Veteran with PTSD here. Kurt Vonnegut is my idle.

Mother Night and Slaughterhouse Five are two of the most scathing critiques of fascism in human history.
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*idol. So it goes
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I related to his writing like no one else. It was like finding a friend, someone who got you.
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Slaughter House 5 changed the way I interpreted the world.
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Now that’s cool!
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Kaboom
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My high school library briefly pulled Slaughter House 5 - following parent complaints it was communist propaganda- and I've been owing Vonnegut ever since
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Wow
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I remember Player Piano being out of print in early 90s so I couldn't get my book group to read it (we did Cat's Cradle, instead). And at university, we were all obsessed with the identity of Kilgore Trout
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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
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