So it goes....

Kurt Vonnegut died today. You can read the first of what I'm sure will be an avalanche of obituaries and columns and retrospectives on his brilliant and often misunderstood work - here.

A brief passage from "Slaughterhouse Five" :

“You know — we’ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves.... We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. My God, my God — I said to myself, ‘It’s the Children’s Crusade.’ ”