>So it goes
>What did he mean by this?
Please discuss
Slaughterhouse-Five discussiopn thread
Wyatt Nelson
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Ayden Gray
It's a printing error.
It's supposed to be, "Sew, it goes".
In other words, if you do the proper work, significant events will eventually happen.
Nolan Butler
Shit happens. People die. Get over it.
Jason Smith
If you wanted to start a real discussion about Slaughterhouse-Five, you led with the shittiest question imaginable.
Jackson Wood
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Daniel Torres
I wasn't actually starting the discussion with that question. I only wrote it because it's a popular meme around here.
Isn't there more to the book or to life than this?
Christian Flores
Meh. "Breakfast of Champions" is way better.
Dominic Baker
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Alexander Howard
Of course there's more to the book and life than that.
Bentley Parker
Please, would you mind expanding, then?
Jack Cook
No.
Daniel Roberts
I really liked this book. I thought the prose was excellent, and the juxtaposition of very real war experiences with seemingly fantastical external perspectives of aliens was very incisive.
Wyatt Allen
I really like the beginning of your 9th grade book review.
James Stewart
My girlfriend's in Dresden right now. Last month, I read this book and told her about it, so she's reading it right now and enjoying it. Imagine the heightened solace you'd have if you read Slaughterhouse 5 in Dresden. I was equally taken with the comedy as well as the tragedy in Vonnegut's writing, but turning the pages of the book above what used to be a crater, I couldn't imagine feeling anything but sad.
Jayden Green
this is my favorite book. made me feel better to be a human
David Lee
>i loved that about her because it was so HUMAN
geez, that's everyone's favorite line
Eli Barnes
hah, you got me.
Noah Hughes
that's just the way it is OR it is what it is.
He uses the most annoying phrase in the world in the hopes of rousing you to pacifism.
Hunter Miller
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Benjamin Scott
i don't know. with how cynical he was in his writing and in real life, when he writes something like that, it's genuine to me.
Thomas Jackson
>Dresden
You realise that they pretty much fixed every vague trace the war might have left and rebuilt the whole city over, and over? This is especially true to cities in the old DDR.
Christian Ortiz
The phrase connotes motion, a journey, a passing. Tralfamadorians see the most sublime state as simply drifting through a lifespan. Billy's existence bleeds into itself. Saying 'so it goes' every time there is a death would seem as if life has ended, as if the soul has passed on, but what I found it to mean was the opposite; that person who has died is still here on earth and is still experiencing their ever changing life, just not in the capacity of right now.
Carson Murphy
If you don't mind, then you were supposed to have expanded. Mind your words, man.
Josiah Butler
Yeah, both are great, but Vonnegut's best is this:
Noah Stewart
I think it can pretty much be summed up by this...
Nolan Cook
Agreed. I always wondered why Vonnegut gave it a 'C' when he was personally grading it.
Lucas Davis
You're both wrong
Josiah Mitchell
It's a handicap Vonnegut uses when he can't think of a transparent enough punchline to the dark humor passage preceding the "so it goes"