“It is just an just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. ‘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’” (27).
This view is similar to the one in Siddhartha about the false existence of time. Vonnegut however suggests that such an outlook is numbing to the natural human reaction to death and behaving in such an indifferent manner makes us ultimately inhuman.
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