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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.
Mary Daniels Here's the pertinent passage:
“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment…moreHere's the pertinent passage:
“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes.’” (less)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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