Slaughterhouse five poo tee weet quotes2/29/2024 Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away.” “She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. I wanted to take note of them all, but realized I may end up re-writing the whole book! You’ll be taken to space.Īs always there are just so many wonderful quotes in Slaughterhouse 5. You’ll be taken to past, future and present. As a reader you’ll jump from one year to another, then back again as Billy’s life events are all accounted for. In Slaughterhouse 5 we follow Billy Pilgrim- p risoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. – That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. ![]() Remarque is more realistic by touching on deep humane connections and emotions, while Vonnegut does the same but with a touch of alien, sarcasm, ‘fill in the blanks yourself’ kind of way. Remarque follows the tried and tested, Vonnegut throws the reader about the plot and events like a rag-doll. While Remarque gives you a heartbreaking and brutal yet beautiful account of the war times, Vonnegut will break your mind and twist the concept of how a book should/could be written. He’s right up there with Erich Maria Remarque even though those two authors write in a completely different style. There is no doubt that Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors. They are interdependent and have a common goal–the search for truth.Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. ![]() As I’ve said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein View from Shizuoka University Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi have done more for humanity than science has done. If we want to improve the world we cannot do it with scientific knowledge but with ideals. Nature is neither solely material nor entirely spiritual. Science is never finished because the human mind only uses a small portion of its capacity, and man’s exploration of his world is also limited.Ĭreation may be spiritual in origin, but that doesn’t mean that everything created is spiritual. When a sissy climbs a mountain in may Marshland pond, Ryuso Mountain And somehow I knew, in this kind of light, in this kind of late-afternoon December light, it always would. In a matter of minutes, a profound sadness washed over me. Albert Einstein Drying persimmonsĪs Bokonon says: ‘Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.’ Kurt Vonnegut (CAT’S CRADLE) Golden pondīut no sooner had the sun slipped away from the leaves than the temperature dropped. If we look at this tree outside whose roots search beneath the pavement for water, or a flower which sends its sweet smell to the pollinating bees, or even our own selves and the inner forces that drive us to act, we can see that we all dance to a mysterious tune, and the piper who plays this melody from an inscrutable distance–whatever name we give him-Creative Force, or God–escapes all book knowledge. The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. ![]() I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature. Reading Kant, I began to suspect everything I was taught. Then one day this student brought me Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. The more I read, the more puzzled I was by the order of the universe and the disorder of the human mind, by the scientists who didn’t agree on the how, the when, or the why of creation. Because of this, I wasn’t worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). School failed me, and I failed the school. All pictures from the last few weeks.Īnd for better or worse, what’s in my mind right now is one of the books I’m teaching, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, which among other things asks us to ponder where truth is most likely to be found-in religion, in science, in both, or in neither. Given it’s a pandemic holiday season, it seems reasonable to limit the pictures this time to places that I could get to by foot or bicycle-or see by looking out my window.
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