Soren Kierkegaard and Vonnegut

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A friend recommended asking this question here as we weren’t able to google it successfully: I named my son, Soren, after reading the a quote by Soren Kierkegaard in a book/novel about 5 years ago. I had always remembered the book as “God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian” by Kurt Vonnegut, but I can’t seem to find the passage there any more. Am I just overlooking it, or does anyone have any idea what book it may have been? Thanks.

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You do realize the philosopher’s name was Søren not Soren?

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Maybe if you gave us the actual quote … ?

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The word “kierkegaard” does not come up on a Google Books search of Vonnegut.

http://books.google.com/books?as_q=kierkegaard&num=10&client=firefox-a&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_libcat=0&as_brr=0&lr=&as_vt=&as_auth=vonnegut&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb=c&as_miny=&as_maxy=&as_isbn=

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I do know the philosopher’s name was Søren, but I was unfamiliar with allowed character s on the board. Also, New York state forbade us to use ø as it does not appear on a normal keyboard, so in both cases I resorted to Soren. I am trying to look back through his baby book to see if I can find any more clues about what the clue may have been.

The memory in my mind was being 8 months pregnant riding the 1/9 train and stumbling across Søren Kierkegaard’s name while reading “God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian” and thinking, “that’s a great name.” Now this is really starting to eat me as I can’t remember more. I’ll think about it and get back to you.

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Isn’t it Rosewater, not Kevorkian?

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Seriously? You are busting balls for this?
I don’t even know how to make special umlats and other characters. I guess I can never start a thread about Motley Crue or Husker Du.
Wow.

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twickster writes:

> Isn’t it Rosewater, not Kevorkian?

Two different books:

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My bad. I stopped paying attention to Vonnegut 25 years ago.