Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
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Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 29, 202634 min

Today we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. Hope you love it. :) Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow <...

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Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is Philosophize This. Patreon.com slash Philosophize This. Philosophical writing on substack at Philosophize This on there. I hope you love the show today.

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So I want to start today by telling you about a guy named Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut was an author born in the U.S. year 1922, which was an interesting year to be born because it placed him in perfect position to becoming of age

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during the opening stages of the Second World War. And being in this spot, the choice he makes is rather than sit around and wait to be called up and drafted into the military by force, he decides he's just going to enlist and at least have some kind of marginal control over what his own fate's

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