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    gaszookie:
    “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 that 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.
    When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is “So it goes.    ”
    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    #slaughterhouse-five #quote #death
     
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    bookswithdifferentauthors:

    Before the downfall.

    #Tiger Woods #Breakfast of Champions #Kurt Vonnegut #Kurt Vonnegut Jr #Books #BooksWithDifferentAuthors #Literature #Novels #Great books #Best Seller #Food #Wheaties #Golf #funny #Events #Tee #Nike #The Masters #PGA #PGA Tour #Augusta #Sunday Red
     
  3. block
    threegoats:

    busy, busy

    #irl
     
  4. block 6
    gaszookie:
    “I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.”
    — Kurt Vonnegut
    #quote #art #artists
     
  5. block 1
    kcharlemagne:
    summer reading

    My goal for this summer is to spend as much time reading, watching movies, and going to museums to better “culture” myself before college. Here’s my reading list so far: 

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Brothers Karamzov

    Animal Farm

    1984

    Atonement

    Homage to Catalonia

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    East of Eden

    Women in Love

    Slaughterhouse 5

    any thoughts/suggestions? 

    #reading list #summer reading #orwell
     
  6. block 2
    springtimeforhitler:
    #meaning of life #fart
     
  7. block 5
    springtimeforhitler:
    #america #pirates #history
     
  8. block 8
    allechx:

    Vonnegut.

    #kurt vonnegut #cat's cradle
     
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    novelblock:
    Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing
    #writing #writer's block #Procrastinating
     
  10. block 19
    cheeselessmoon:
    “

    Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.

    Should the nation’s wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

    ”
    — Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
    #Kurt #Timequake #Socialism