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14872697 No.14872697 [Reply] [Original]

I don't get it.

>> No.14872764
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14872764

Just you wait.

>> No.14872818

Its all a giant cope by Billy.
>gets enslaved by aliens
>is immediately freed of all responsibilities
>married to landwhale on earth
>just happens to be enslaved with the big tiddy porn star that he sees late in the book
>aliens provide Billy with a deterministic philosophy which he uses as an excuse to never change his shitty life

>> No.14872838

>>14872764
so this is the "war is bad" trilogy?

>> No.14872873

>>14872838
Specifically it's the American postmodern "war is bad" trilogy.

>> No.14873412

>>14872838
It's simply "The war is, trilogy"

>> No.14873588

>>14872818
>aliens provide Billy with a deterministic philosophy which he uses as an excuse to never change his shitty life
Except it's not their philosophy, it's uncontestable truth (in the story). What does this mean? Vonnegut was a twat. I still like his work though, it's pretty funny.

>> No.14873590

>>14872697
Read the first four, it'll make more sense.

>> No.14873812

>>14873588
expect its not intended to be a form / an excuse of escapism in the book. iirc billy himself doesn't have knowledge of what's going to happen (nor does he claim to, asides from his death i think . its a form of cope from the wartime trauma he experienced: "and so it goes"