Nor is it a removal of our love and concern. No one ever truly dies.“Detachment is not a cold, hostile withdrawal a resigned, despairing acceptance of anything life and people throw our way a robotical walk through life oblivious to, and totally unaffected by people and problems a Pollyanna-like ignorant bliss a shirking of our true responsibilities to ourselves and others a severing of our relationships. In all others, they’re living their life as they always have.
If someone is dead, they’re only in a bad way at that moment. He learns to see time as happening all at once. It’s through their teachings that Billy comes to terms with life and death. The Tralfamadorians play an important role in the novel. It suggests that humanity is engaged in a collective delusion that no one else is suffering from. By saying that of all the worlds they visited, Earth is the only one where people speak of free will is captivating. These creatures, which are described as two feet tall, in the shape of toilet plungers, with a single hand with an eye in the center of it, also don’t believe in free will.
There, he learns about their philosophy of life and how they navigate the world and four-dimensional space. It falls in chapter 4 when Billy recalls the time he spent with the Tralfamadorians. This is one of the most important quotes in the novel. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will. “If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings,” said the Tralfamadorian, “I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by ‘free will.’ I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more.
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