The Sirens of Titan
Anyone who finds himself obliged, in the course of a history, to describe the war between Earth and Mars is humbled by the realization that the tale has already been told to glorious perfection by Rumfoord.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Rumfoord’s hands worked in air, unhappily trying on various lines of argument for size.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
“Graw,” said one Titanic bluebird sociably. “Graw,” the other agreed.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
CHRONO-SYNCLASTIC INFUNDIBULA—Just
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
These unhappy agents found what had already been found in abundance on Earth—a nightmare of meaninglessness without end. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
they told him again and again and again
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Salo was a messenger from the planet Tralfamadore in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
His ship was powered, and the Martian war effort was powered, by a phenomenon known as UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness—that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness.
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the fifty-three portals to the soul.