it goes.

"So it goes." Constantly throughout Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut writes "so it goes." From the slaughter of the cows ...

"Poo-tee-weet?" What else is left to be said after a massacre like Dresden? When all the people are buried in graves of rubble a...

"Billy opened his eyes. A middle-aged man and wife were crooning to the horses. They were noticing what the Americans had not noticed- ...

“They were grainy things, soot and chalk. They could have been anybody" (Vonnegut 205, 208). Vonnegut uses this simple, redundant mo...

" Gutless Wonder ...was about a robot who had had bad breath....But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was t...

"He was down in the meat locker on the night that Dresden was destroyed. There were sounds like giant footsteps above. Those were stick...

"'Me and Mike, ve vork in a mine./Holy s**t ve have a good time./Vunce a veek ve get our pay./Holy s**t, no vork next day.' ......

Even in the beginning of the novel, the audience was aware that an innocent American soldier would be shot by a firing squad for pillaging a...

Mrs. Sander reminded us on her blog to think of colors, especially red. Unfortunately I forgot about the colors, but I thought back again a...

"'You needn't to worry about bombs, by the way. Dresden is an open city. It is undefended, and contains no war industries or tr...

"'We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly-shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, My God,...

"But among them was this poor Earthling, and his head was encased in a steel sphere which he could never take off... he was also strapp...

Intangible. Indescribable.  It’s free will. "'If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings,’ said the Tramalf...

Roland Weary desperately wished to emerge out of the German territory and into waves of commendation, flanked by his Musketeers and chari...

“But, lying on the black ice there, Billy stared into the patina of the corporal’s boots, saw Adam and Eve in the golden depths. They were...

“The two scouts who had ditched Billy and Weary had just been shot…They had been discovered and shot from behind. Now they were dying in th...

"He [Roland Weary] has every piece of equipment he had ever been issued...bulletproof Bible, a pamphlet entitled "Know Your Enemy,...

Think of a stereotypical, middle-school bully. Does a chubby, fumbling, power-hungry fool come to mind? A boy, calling himself a man, who ha...

"That must have been in 1964 or so- whatever the last year was for the New York's World's Fair.   Eheu, fugaces labuntur anni...

"I have become an old fart with his memories and his Pall Malls, with his sons full grown" (Vonnegut 2). With this humorous,...

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