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Nadya asked this question about Slaughterhouse-Five:
What does "So it goes" mean? The narrator seems to say that every time someone dies, so I was wondering what it meant.
Denise Fair That was what Tralfamadorians says when they see a corpse. To them, death is just a bad condition at a particular moment in one's existence, but the s…moreThat was what Tralfamadorians says when they see a corpse. To them, death is just a bad condition at a particular moment in one's existence, but the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Billy Pilgrim now views death the same way, as if it's just one bad moment among many other good moments, so it's not something to dwell on.(less)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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