Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5: Fate

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that is indeed biased.
Based on the fact that Tralfamadorians cannot understand the human concept
of time, they have the ability to pick and choose when they want to live
each moment of their lives ,unlike humans, especially Billy Pilgrim who
has no control of his unpredictable "time tripping[s]."
Furthermore, the Tralfamadorian's belief that life is predetermined
has caused them to concentrate on the good things in life and forget about
the bad, which has lead them to become very un-sentimental life forms. They
constantly use the phrase "so it goes" for everything that goes wrong,
including such emotion evoking things like deaths. They show no remorse or
sorrow because of the fact that they can just jump to a happier point in
their lives when ever the want to. Thus causing the happier points in life
to eventually loose their sparkle because of the fact that if everything in
one's life is happy, then one begins to take it for granted and it looses
it's appeal. Therefore, one ...

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