“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed. always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”
Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is a narrative that intertwines the author's own experiences during the bombing of Dresden with a fantastical, nonlinear storytelling style. The protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, is a soldier who survives the devastating attack and finds himself trapped in time, experiencing the same moments repeatedly. The novel delves into themes of randomness, existentialism, and the absurdity of war, offering a poignant and often humorous perspective on life and death. more
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