The Dream Obituary First Line

From the NYTimes:

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.

Just swap in San Francisco and a few titles, and we're cooking.

(Wish I had more to say on ol' Kurt, but I don't remember his books being as ground-breaking as many claim. But there are certainly enough of his kind of readers out there to make his death notable.)