Fates Worse than Death

Fates Worse than Death

Infobox Book
name = Fates Worse Than Death


image_caption = Front Cover
author = Kurt Vonnegut
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cover_artist =
country = USA
language = English
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publisher = Berkley Trade
release_date = 1990 (1st edition),
September 1, 1992 (Reprint)
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 240
isbn = ISBN 978-0-42-513406-1
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"Fates Worse than Death", subtitled "An Autobiographical Collage", is a 1990 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. In the introduction to the book, Vonnegut acknowledges that the book is similar to an earlier book, "Palm Sunday". In it he discusses his attempted suicide.

This book also includes a "humanist requiem" that Vonnegut wrote as a reaction to the Roman Catholic Requiem, which he had heard in Andrew Lloyd Webber's setting and whose text he found offensive. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_5_61/ai_78966517] Vonnegut's own text was then set as a "Cosmos Cantata" by the composer Seymour Barab, of whom Vonnegut said, "Barab's music is full of magic. He proved to an atheist that God exists. What an honor to have worked with him." [http://www.seymourbarab.com/biography.html] The ending of this text is as follows:

:"Let not eternal light disturb our sleep, O Cosmos, for Thou art merciful. Deliver me, O Cosmos, from everlasting wakefulness. On that dread day when the heavens and earth shall quake, when we shall dissolve the world into glowing ashes in the name of gods unknowable, I am seized with trembling and I am afraid until that day of reckoning shall arrive. Hence I pray, Deliver me, O Cosmos, from everlasting wakefulness on that day of wrath, calamity and misery. Rest grant us, O Cosmos, and let not light perpetual disturb our sleep." [http://www.amarquetarian.com/vonnegut.htm]


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