Thursday, October 22, 2009

Ultra-long Slaughter House Quotes! (It was Just too FUNNY!)




idiotic Englishman, who had lost
And we were flown to a rest camp in France,
where we were fed chocolate malted milkshakes
and other rich foods until we were all covered with baby fat.
Then we were sent home, and I married a pretty girl
who was covered with baby fat, too.- 7

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"- 19

This one is a failure, and had to be,
since it was written by a pillar of salt.
It begins like this:
Listen:
Billy Pilgrim has come unstruck in time.
It ends like this:
Poo-tee-weet?- 22

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
- 33

Little Billy was terrified, because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or-swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim.- 43

Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them. Billy was a dumper.-70

Lazzaro was polka-dotted all over with dimesized scars. He had many plagues of boils.- 84

The creatures can see where each star has filled with rarified, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes...-87

Billy hated the canyon. He was sure that he was going to fall in. His mother touched him, and he wet his pants.- 89

So the coat became a fur-collared vest. It was meant to flare at its owner's waist, but the flaring took place at Billy's armpit.-90

The British had no way of knowing it but the candles and the soap were made from fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State. - 96

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes....Jesus really was a nobody, and a pain in the neck to a lot of people with better connections than he had.- 109

So Billy made a lollipop for him. He opened the window. He struck the lollipop into poor old Derby's gaping mouth. A moment passed, and then Derby burst into tears.- 101

Kilgore Trout laughed uproariously. A salmon egg flew out of his mouth and landed in Maggie's cleavage.- 172


One of America's most humorous, satirical literatures, Slaughterhouse Five demonstrates mankind losing their heads off! A writer investigates the happenings in Dresden: "....the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died......an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,793 people. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people" (188). Not only the Germans themselves, but also the Americans pulverized many lives for "the greater good." Vonnegut ridicules efforts, motives, and purposes of war. He displays the inhuman filthy environment many soldiers have dealt through. Billy Pilgrim becomes the big screen of the disparities of war. After the airplane crash, Billy loses his mind and possibly the interpretations of his experiences! Alien! A hot 20 year old celebrity! A meet with a crazy baffoon writer! His head becomes a mind juggling facts from fiction!

Balers are Readers Book Club Meets!



First books this year: Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a crazy and fun pairing. Anna read hilarious passages from Zombies, and nearly everyone thought the pictures in that book were wonderful. Ruth agreed with Dr. A that Austen is a lovely writer, but Zombies seemed to win over the group.