Vonnegut dies

clipped from www.nytimes.com Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture’s Novelist, Dies By DINITIA SMITH Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.