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What does "So it goes" mean? The narrator seems to say that every time someone dies, so I was wondering what it meant.
David My belief is that he says it after every death to the point where you become desensitized. And that is the point. The brutality of war and pointlessne…moreMy belief is that he says it after every death to the point where you become desensitized. And that is the point. The brutality of war and pointlessness of early death become dismissed with a "So it goes." It is shocking in its understatement.(less)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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