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is on page 166 of 275
quotes from the last few days of reading:
p. 160 - “It had been built as a shelter for pigs about to be butchered. Now it was going to serve as a home away from home for 100 American prisoners of war.”
p. 166 - “She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, he said he didn’t know. He was just trying to keep warm. ‘All the real soldiers are dead,’ she said. It was true. So it goes.”
— Jul 10, 2025 08:17PM
p. 160 - “It had been built as a shelter for pigs about to be butchered. Now it was going to serve as a home away from home for 100 American prisoners of war.”
p. 166 - “She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, he said he didn’t know. He was just trying to keep warm. ‘All the real soldiers are dead,’ she said. It was true. So it goes.”
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germ
is on page 224 of 275
p. 198 - “Rumfoord was thinking in a military manner: that an inconvenient person, one whose death he wished for very much, for practical reasons, was suffering from a repulsive disease.”
p. 215 - “[My father] was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust.”
finished book at 11:51PM on July 10, 2025
— Jul 10, 2025 08:51PM
p. 215 - “[My father] was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust.”
finished book at 11:51PM on July 10, 2025
germ
is on page 191 of 275
p. 185 - “Absolutely everybody in the city was supposed to be dead, regardless of who they were, and that anybody that moved in it represented a flaw in the design.”
p. 191 - “He knew very little about her, except that she was one more public demonstration that he was a superman.”
— Jul 10, 2025 08:24PM
p. 191 - “He knew very little about her, except that she was one more public demonstration that he was a superman.”
germ
is on page 182 of 275
p. 170 - “. . . most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
p. 182 - “Robert, the future Green Beret, was seventeen then. Billy liked him, but didn’t know him very well. Billy couldn’t help suspecting that there wasn’t much to know about Robert.”
— Jul 10, 2025 08:21PM
p. 182 - “Robert, the future Green Beret, was seventeen then. Billy liked him, but didn’t know him very well. Billy couldn’t help suspecting that there wasn’t much to know about Robert.”
germ
is on page 145 of 275
memorable moments from today’s reading:
pg 112 - “She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.”
pg 118 - “the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolute sure he isn’t well connected. . . There are right people to lynch.”
— Jul 02, 2025 06:19PM
pg 112 - “She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.”
pg 118 - “the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolute sure he isn’t well connected. . . There are right people to lynch.”
germ
is on page 84 of 275
“It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.” the whole undoing of damage by watching the film backwards
— Jul 01, 2025 06:04PM
