he·ro [heer-oh] –noun, plural -roes; also -ros.
| 1. | a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. |
| 2. | a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
http://www.vonnegut.com/
the Bokononist last rites:
"God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God."
Kurt is up in Heaven now.
That was his favorite joke.
It has been years since I cried, but today I cried for all of us. So much poorer for having lost him. Christ, now I've started again.
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