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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.
Rapti Gupta To put it as blatantly and simply - he was narrating the story. That's why.

When you're telling someone a story, literally, you punctuate with intonat…moreTo put it as blatantly and simply - he was narrating the story. That's why.

When you're telling someone a story, literally, you punctuate with intonation. Here, I thought "so it goes" was a sort of punctuation. "So it goes" in its simplest form, was just narration-relief. At least that's what I like to call it.

It was to remind the reader that Billy isn't the narrator, it is a third person spinning Billy's story!(less)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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