Beauty

[divmazie]

I don't think Billy Pilgrim is insane

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[choodle]

Those are the moments you charish the most, but soon forget about in a year. I have some footage of Carrie G Paul and I joking around in caitlins driveway waiting for her to come out, and it was really fin the watch because it was just a simple conversation, one that is really funny at the time, but is soon forgotten about.

[carrie8705]

that's because I'm so awesome; any memory you have of me is going to be cherished for a lifetime.

[brickfireanimal]

Sure, he wasn't insane, but the plane crash knocked a few screws loose (if you will), causing him to make up the Tralfamadore experience.
At least that's what I think.

[divmazie]

Yeah, I think Vonnegut meant everything in that book completely seriously.

The reason it disturbed me when people called Billy insane was that I have a very similar view of time to his, and it happens to make me feel better about the world.

[theup_andup]

I've really been struggling lately with the whole idea of Billy's sense of time. I too also find this view quite comforting. I also think Vonnegut was completely serious about the ideas, but in a realistic sense, I view Billy's time travels as the warped mind of a man who has witnessed a massacre and been knocked around a bit in a plane crash. When asked on the U of C website why I chose Chicago I replied: "Do you believe in free will?"--was that always structured like that and never meant to change?

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Billy Syndrom

[brickfireanimal]

i suppose that the only one that would know if free will exists would be one such as billy who is constantly flowing back and forth through the repercussions of said free will, and he doesnt think it exists.

You stole the greatest quote of the book, so i will reply with one from outside of it.

the reader is put to task
when there is no face behind the mask

-willr