#slaughterhouse five

[explodingsilver]

Bad literary idea: Slaughterhouse-Five, but every instance of "So it goes" is replaced with "Many such cases"

[allegorechoquilts]

Of course I found a quilt on my birthday trip! We went to the Kurt Vonnegut museum (which was soooo cool, if you live around Indy it’s worth the trip) and this beauty was hanging in the stairwell!

This was probably the best birthday I’ve ever had, we went to 5 different bookstores, the museum, and had a lovely dinner. 10/10 day!

[beautiesofbygoneeras]

Valerie Perrine (September 3, 1943 – March 23, 2026) in her film debut, "Slaughterhouse Five," (1972).

[vifetoile]

"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor.

Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times.

Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

[weltonboys]

slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut

[horrorhimejoshi]

dark comedies about war I love you so much

[itstheheebiejeebies]

War Webweave

The Pacific E1 // Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut // Band of Brothers // M*A*S*H S2E10 The Sniper // The Pacific E5 // M*A*S*H S1E17 Sometimes You Hear the Bullet // The Pacific E6 // M*A*S*H S1E17 Sometimes You Hear the Bullet // Band of Brothers E7 The Breaking Point // M*A*S*H S1E17 Sometimes You Hear the Bullet // Masters of the Air E2 // War Isn't Murder-Jesse Welles // Saving Private Ryan // M*A*S*H S5E20 The Generals Practitioner // The Pacific E9 // Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut // Band of Brothers E5 Crossroads // M*A*S*H S1E16 The Yankee Doodle Doctor // Saving Private Ryan

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[chromedome1969]

Just finished Slaughterhouse Five, and besides it being an incredible rumination on coping with trauma and death with deeply captivating moment to moment prose and comedy, I've been wondering since I began the book how the similarly named group from Worm relates to it.

The Slaughterhouse Nine's title is an explicit reference to S5, but after reading the novel I do have to wonder if there's more to the reference beyond just being something Wildbow did for fun. Like, the only solid connection point between the two that I can think of would be Gray Boy having a similar predicament of being "unstuck in time" as Billy Pilgrim, but besides that everything else I can think of feels coincidental at best. Maybe the novel's blase and cynical attitude towards death is reflected in the Nine's maliciousness, both Billy Pilgrim and each member evolving into a mindset which devalues life and its unfortunate ends. They're all at their core traumatized and broken people, so maybe this devaluing comes from the same place of fear, at trying to run away from the horrors of reality. "So it goes," as they say, while the world behind them burns in their memories.