It is just an illusion 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.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

hozier // kurt vonnegut

Oliver Quick, SALTBURN

“He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.”

Head (1968) // Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

something something time loop something something everything that will happen has already happened and will always happen

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

"The most important thing I learnt 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 the 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 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 any Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments."

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

hey. im sorry your boyfriend became unstuck in time. yeah all of time is happening at once for him now, and life and death and change are all interconnected parts of one life, and he can see that now—all small parts, disconnected and mismatched, that only fit together upon viewing the entire story. im sorry that this all happened, more or less, and that he stands on the line of reality and fiction when interpreting his traumas, and im sorry that he knows the reality of what the two sides in one conflict are. hello. farewell. you know?

Westworld (2016-2022) by Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan // Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut

mash s2e10 "the sniper", 1973 // kurt vonnegut "slaughterhouse five or the children's crusade", 1969

asteroid city - wes anderson // frankestein - mary shelley // slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

We need to go back to dealing with our trauma like early-mid 20th century male authors that fought in WWI or WWII

(by writing an epic novel hiding the trauma behind metaphors/fantasy/absurdism and characters that are a little insane)