Well here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment...
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés maturity cat-s-cradle kurt-vonnegut
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.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Kaikki henkilöt, elävät ja kuolleet,
ovat täysin sattuman tuotteita
eikä heitä pidä yrittää tulkita.
Aikaa myöten lähes kaikki ihmiset käyvät tarpeettomiksi tavaroiden, ravinnon, palveluiden ja uusien koneiden tuottajina ja käyttökelpoisten ideoiden lähteenä talouselämässä, tekniikassa ja luultavasti myös lääketieteessä. Jos siis emme keksi syitä ja keinoja arvostaa ihmisiä koska he ovat ihmisiä, voimme yhtä hyvin, kuten monesti on ehdotettukin, pyyhkäistä heidät pois maan päältä.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of that mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made", said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I am not dying," said Rumfoord. "I am merely taking my leave of the solar system. And I am not even doing that. In the grand, in the timeless, in the chronosynclastic infundibulated way of looking at things. I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ja arī kari nenāktu mums virsū gluži kā šļūdoņi, uz zemes tomēr paliktu tā pati vecā labā nāvīte.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés death
Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that 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.
The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance.
They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them.
It is 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.
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