Slaughterhouse-Five
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So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace?
The soldiers’ blue eyes were filled with bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.
His vision of the outside world was limited to what he could see through a narrow slit between the rim of his helmet and his scarf from home, which concealed his baby face from the bridge of his nose on down.
...because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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He said that Americans had no choice but to keep fighting in Vietnam until they achieved victory or until the Communists realized that they could not force their way of life on weak countries.
“You were just babies then!” she said.
“What?” I said.
“You were just babies in the war, like the ones upstairs!”
I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood.
“You seem older than the rest,” said the colonel.
[...]
You know- we’ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We have forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock “My God, my God-“ I said to myself. “It’s the Children’s Crusade.”
Only the candles and the soap were of German origin. [...] The British had no way of knowing it, but the candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State.
So it goes.
Those boots were almost all he owned in this world. They were his home. An anecdote:
One time a recruit was watching him bone and wax those golden boots, and he held one up to the recruit and said, “ If you look in there deeply enough, you’ll see Adam and Eve.”
''I learn by going where i have to go''
Gitmem gereken yeri giderek öğreniyorum.
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when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
And he told me about the concentration camps, and about how the Germans had made soap and candles out of the fat of dead Jews and so on.
All I could say was, “ I know, I know, I know.”
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”