This makes so much more sense than any other war story I've seen or heard. Because war isn't the fighting and violence, right? It's what led up to it, and how people remember it, and how it destroyed lives and how it continues to destroy lives long after it's over. This is the most honest method of describing trauma in fiction that I've ever seen. If you tell everything sequentially, that's good for informative purposes, but that's not how humans remember things. We remember visceral experiences and mundane activities and sudden peculiarities, all in momentary snatches of sensory information, and we can't control when we feel those memories or how strongly. I thought this was either going to be speculative fiction or an interminable war-story novel or possibly both. But somehow this feels deeply relatable even though I don't have much issue with dissociation or flashbacks. Just that feeling lost in a situation is familiar. And of the way of understanding death too. Ever since I learned about the stopped-clock illusion (which I knew about since I was a kid, but not how it worked or that it had a name), I've been a little fed up with this linear time nonsense anyway.
There use to be hotel beds by the brand name of "Magic Fingers!!" I've never been able to try one, I'm only 31, but I have always wondered what those beds were like, and how much they vibrated.
so...he is writing a book about being in a war, while writing a book inside a book about writing a book about being in a war, oh also there are alains. seems legit
That is one of the feelings that Vonnegut is trying to portray. By using that nonchalant saying, he shows .that Billy is no longer effected by the harshness of death. This being one of the “side effects” of war.
When he said to pick out _____________ I felt that
This makes so much more sense than any other war story I've seen or heard.
Because war isn't the fighting and violence, right? It's what led up to it, and how people remember it, and how it destroyed lives and how it continues to destroy lives long after it's over. This is the most honest method of describing trauma in fiction that I've ever seen. If you tell everything sequentially, that's good for informative purposes, but that's not how humans remember things. We remember visceral experiences and mundane activities and sudden peculiarities, all in momentary snatches of sensory information, and we can't control when we feel those memories or how strongly.
I thought this was either going to be speculative fiction or an interminable war-story novel or possibly both. But somehow this feels deeply relatable even though I don't have much issue with dissociation or flashbacks. Just that feeling lost in a situation is familiar. And of the way of understanding death too.
Ever since I learned about the stopped-clock illusion (which I knew about since I was a kid, but not how it worked or that it had a name), I've been a little fed up with this linear time nonsense anyway.
wow i cant believe they got John Mulaney to record a whole audio book
There's another one read by Ethan Hawk but he doesn't stumble over the same words I would so I like this one better.
The homeless man is literally the same voice it’s so funny dhdbf
Who's John M a spastic yank?
Thank god I chose this confusing ass book to do a report on
How did the report go
@@corgisarefunny honestly, I think I gave up and started cheating. The book does live rent free in my head though
@@aheroicandwell-reviewedliz801 so relatable
I love the repetition of the name V. O’hare even though he changed the names.
Excellent narration!
Thank you so much! Really helpful!!
It's confirmed, the content of this book was made under the influence. I don't understand it.
Look for symbolism brother
Best description of time ever written
4:24 I’m DEAD 😂😂😂😂
There use to be hotel beds by the brand name of "Magic Fingers!!" I've never been able to try one, I'm only 31, but I have always wondered what those beds were like, and how much they vibrated.
so...he is writing a book about being in a war, while writing a book inside a book about writing a book about being in a war, oh also there are alains. seems legit
And time travel
Thanks Kermit 👍
Among the things Billy couldn't change were the past, present and future.
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bro saving me from my timed write tmr
I like it, but, am I the only one to find the "So it goes" ritornello slightly irritating?
I am Jack's inspiration..
That is one of the feelings that Vonnegut is trying to portray. By using that nonchalant saying, he shows .that Billy is no longer effected by the harshness of death. This being one of the “side effects” of war.
And so on.
He says it every time someone dies. As if he is saying “ that’s just life”
If you speed it up the voice goes from Kermit to Jesse Eisengerg
SHIT now i cant unhear kermit that lmfao
I think this book is more for the constant reader.
Poor Wild Bob
mmmm... Not sure I'm feeling this book
Why is this in the Gameing category
9:29 Pronunciation of LEICA is more like: "Like uh"
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