![]() They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. It begins like this:Ĭhapter 2 All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been.I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.Vonnegut, as narrator, addresses his publisher Seymour ("Sam") Lawrence directly about his book (p.Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.Īnd what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?" Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.The wife of an old war buddy accusing the author, who is writing a book about the destruction by bombing of Dresden, Germany in World War II (pp."I tell you what," I said, " I'll call it The Children's Crusade." If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won't be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne. I must have written five thousand pages by now, and thrown them all away. So I held up my right hand and I made her a promise: "Mary," I said, "I don't think this book of mine is ever going to be finished. And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies. She didn't want her babies or anybody else's babies killed in wars. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs." And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. ![]() " You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be portrayed in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. "But you're not going to write it that way, are you." This wasn't a question. We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood. "You were just babies in the war - like the ones upstairs!" The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.And he's given a regular trial, and then he's shot by a firing squad." (pp. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot. ![]() A whole city gets burned down, and thousands of people are killed.
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