Slaughterhouse Five Quotes Flashcards
What Vonnegut said to his publisher?
‘It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre’
How Mary thinks he will present war?
‘You’ll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men’
What Roland Weary’s feet became?
‘Blood puddings’
The speaker at the Lion’s club eg Curtis LeMay?
He was in favour of the ‘bombing of North Vietnam back to the Stone Age’
How Billy describes his time travel?
‘He has become ‘unstuck in time’
When Billy first time travelled?
‘he first came unstuck when World War Two was in progress’
Tralfamadorian maxim?
‘ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones’
Easy to stop wars?
‘there would always be wars, [and] they were as easy to stop as glaciers’
What is said after every death?
‘So it goes’ - said exactly 100 times
The alternate title for the book?
‘The children’s crusade’
Is the story true?
Opening line: ‘all this happened, more or less’
What Billy’s daughter, Barbara, thought of him?
‘she thought her father was senile’
What the aliens think of time?
we ‘are trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.’
Deterministic?
‘Only on Earth is there any talk of free will’
Billy’s experience of death?
‘It is simply violet light and a hum. There isn’t anybody else there’
How he describes the attack on Dresden?
‘the greatest massacre in European history’
