
Slaughterhouse-Five

“He’s simply echoing things we say,” said Rumfoord. “Oh,” said Lily. “He’s got echolalia now.” “Oh.”
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cf. BOC
So it goes.
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It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
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and so on—so
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He was as tall as Billy, wore steel-rimmed trifocals.
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And then
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So it goes.
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They were going to discuss whether the novel was dead or not. So it goes.