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To me, too, it seems, it`s a use of a language to amplify, accentuate, and group various deaths in the novel. It`s a death toll. It is our everyday life yet it splits our reality and our time into before and after(or rather lack of it). Since the war is about numbers and death, we keep a track of it through the novel. So it goes is a powerful way to distance ourselves from it to survive, yet for what price?
It doesn't follow every mention-- towards the end when Billy is in NYC (maybe in the adult book store, around that part of the book), they mention that someone died and don't say "so it goes". It stuck out rather oddly to me.
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To me, too, it seems, it`s a use of a language to amplify, accentuate, and group various deaths in the novel. It`s a death toll. It is our everyday life yet it splits our reality and our time into before and after(or rather lack of it). Since the war is about numbers and death, we keep a track of it through the novel. So it goes is a powerful way to distance ourselves from it to survive, yet for what price?
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It doesn't follow every mention-- towards the end when Billy is in NYC (maybe in the adult book store, around that part of the book), they mention that someone died and don't say "so it goes". It stuck out rather oddly to me.
