Thursday, October 22, 2009

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This book continues to be a thoroughly entertaining book. I really like the part where he is describing his own death. Any one in the real world would freak out if they found out the time of their death or any details what so ever, but because Billy Pilgrim can travel through time, death to him is described as a violet color and a humming noise. Billy Pilgrim gets known for what he knows about time travel and when he is giving a speech and calmly tells everyone there that he will die in a matter of minutes, of course everyone in a two mile radius of him begins to freak out. But not Billy, he calmly describes to everyone that if they have been paying attention to what he has been saying during the speech that he was giving, he has already been through this moment and will go through it again. Although this is funny, at the same time it is actually a very intriguing statement. During another point in the book when he is talking to the tralfamadorians about how they will blow up the universe he asks, if you know that its going to happen, why don't you stop it? The Tralfamadorians then reply, that the blowing up of the universe will happen and will always happened merely because it already has happened. And out there to the few people reading this, this may hurt your head but think about it, it actually makes complete sense.

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