Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 1: Crash Course Literature 212

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• LA

  @LaurokaPlay · 9 years ago

  "Well, I can smoke or I can leave" is the writer I hope to one day be wow

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• BO

  @bolivarescobar · 12 years ago

  I love the part in which Billy cries for the first time, after seeing the horses with their wounded mouths. I think that this is a very accurate description of sadness, of being unable to notice the evil we cause to others.

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• TA

  @Tacsponge · 12 years ago

  WHAT. You make Pilgrim sound insane. Pilgrim isn't insane. HE HAS become unstuck in time!

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• WE

  @WestPictures · 12 years ago

  &quot;It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, 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.<br>And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like &quot;Poo-tee-weet?&quot;

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• IA

  @iammrbeat · 12 years ago

  One of my favorite books. I&apos;m glad you covered this. A must read for any human.

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• LY

  @lyadmilo · 12 years ago

  You cannot say for certain that, within the world of the novel, the Tralfamadorians don&apos;t exist. &nbsp;Both scenarios - PTSD flashbacks, and real alien intervention, are given equal plausibility within the novel. &nbsp;Saying it is all fantasy, for sure, lessens the impact of the novel&apos;s examination on alternate histories and the power of narrative.

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• CA

  @Caperhere · 7 years ago

  When I was seven, I went to my great grandmothers funeral. I vividly remember having an overwhelming urge to laugh. Then I had a recurring dream about her for months. I was ashamed of her funeral until I learned about hysteria.

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• NO

  @nolanfontaine7973 · 7 years ago

  Just finished reading this book while on standby at my construction job in Utah. I&apos;m 19, and Vonnegut has now become my favorite author. Thank you Crash Course for becoming an instrumental part in my young adult life and for reminding me of the freedoms associated with education.

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• LU

  @Lucols4 · 12 years ago

  You met Kurt? Dude that&apos;s so awesome

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• GI

  @gigibyte_ · 6 years ago

  Literature is really a combination of everything. History, psychology, the past, the future...<br>it&apos;s quite interesting to see how everything played out.

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• SL

  @SlimThrull · 12 years ago

  &quot;Well, I can smoke or I can leave.&quot; &lt;3 Kurt Vonnegut

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• RE

  @ReadHeadPat · 12 years ago

  I cannot express how happy I am that you guys at Crash Course decided to cover Slaughterhouse-Five, it is one of my all time favorite books. I am doing a research paper on it, (comparing some themes it has with Catcher in the Rye). One of my favorite passages from the novel is &quot;I have lit my way in a prison at night with candles from the fat of human beings who were butchered by the brothers and fathers of those schoolgirls who were boiled.&quot; this quote just highlights so many different levels of cruelty and destruction from both countries of the war and I just love the way Vonnegut addresses the nonsensical nature of war and time and all of those horribly fascinating things.

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