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14008215 No.14008215 [Reply] [Original]

>It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

>The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers , and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.

>When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

>> No.14008284

There is a red dwarf episode with this idea

>> No.14008538

>>14008284
What happens in it?

>> No.14008549

>>14008215
probably the highlight of the book, really affected me when I first read it

>> No.14008688

>>14008549
I found the use of "so it goes" to be most affecting. It seemed like such a cold-hearted things to say that its constant use really got a reaction out of me.

>> No.14008715

>>14008538
The guys end up in a univers that goes backwards and they are the only once gooing forward. They become famous for it. Font remember too much more. Just that war was a great blessing because millions of people rize up from the grave(beein born)

>> No.14009349

Why do Vonnegut threads never go anywhere on /lit/?
You'd think a fair number of people would've read the books given their length - and SH5 is seen as a classic.