DUDE ALIENS LMAO
>>7414759
what if... like you could travel through time?
>I think that's been done before, Mr. Vonnegut
okay but what if like you didn't get to pick where you went, and knew how you were going to die?
>But couldn't you affect your past and future by using knowledge gained time traveling?
ookay but what if you were like a weirdo and maybe a little bit retarded
>who'd want to read a story about a loser retard who doesn't do anything to change his life
okay, hm. okay what if you were still a retard but also had a big dick?
>>7414944
okay what if you could travel through time
>mr. vonnegut you wrote that a while ago
no no, but you didn't choose where you went
>yes sir that's the plot of Slaughterhouse--
no but, you were everywhere at once all the time
>how would character develop?
i dunno, at the end you could get angry at your space friend despite the fact you've slowly cultivated a friendship though he sees shit in the same way you do
>how would that even work
well i would just explain all the sci fi elements, but then ignore it and write it like a relationship between any two non time traveling characters
>>7414759
Hate him as much as you like, but I'd have smoked weed with Vonnegut.
>tfw found out you can freestyle rap to Mf Doom backing tracks spontaneously for around two minutes, using an irregular rhythm scheme, surrealist imagery and occasionally a rough iambic pentameter
>>7414951
>Hey, Mr. Vonnegut, we need another best seller
no I'm working on it, it's about time travel
>Kurt...
No it's different. Imagine that you could travel through time, but you didn't get to pick where you were going
>This is the plot of SH5 and SoT again, isn't it
No, no! Because... um... this time, it happens to everybody!
>How could you possibly keep track of those threads
Well, no, that wouldn't matter, because everybody would go back to the same point in time, see it'd only happen once
>But is everyone going to be stupid as Billy Pilgrim this time? how would this work?
Well, yah see... what if everyone were compelled to do the same thing
>So, like everybody would be a philosophical zombie and relive the last ten years and watch everything like it was on TV
Yeah, it'd be horrible, wouldn't it?
>Is there any philosophical point to it this time
Maybe, I don't know yet. But, then what if at the end everybody got in a car accident or whatever when they suddenly switched back on
>You're just making this up as you go, aren't you?
I know, it sounds like that, but I'm actually going to spend half the novel making fun of the novel they just bought, explaining the problems with that
>That seems like a huge betrayal of the reader's trust
Yeah but I think I'm done writing, who cares?
>>7414955
fukken pseudo slime
>>7415001
This is what google gave me and I love it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdg-G4PzHok
>>7414956
Fuck off
>>7414982
I wish this was his writing process
>>7414944
But that's not why he didn't change the past
Please read the book again
>>7414982
Timequake is shit though. Everyone knows it's bad.
Slaughterhouse Five on the other hand is great.
>>7415139
Once is bad enough
>>7414759
Vonnegut is a meme gone too far
>>7414759
Bump
>>7417219
Why would you bump this terrible thread? Do you want us to just bash Kurt Reddigut even more?
>>7417222
Yes please.
>>7414759
>DUDE PTSD LMAO
>>7417259
pretty much this
I like Vonnegut but it's kind of crazy to me how up in arms he was about Dresden. I know he was there and it (probably) was unnecessary to bomb it in the first place, but I don't think he ever rescinded his claim that 250,000 people died even though modern historians and Germans agree it was a tenth of that. I'm not trying to downplay what happened, and that's certainly a lot of people (mainly civilians) but it seems like he was trying to latch onto a thing and make it bigger than it was. I donno if that makes sense, I guess I'm rambling
>image.jpg
Ban them
>>7417468
This is what all iPhones post images as because it strips the excif data
>>7417416
It must've been a profoundly horrifying and disorienting experience for him though: the Germans exhibiting their atrocity (inb4 dindu nuffin) and taking him, a fellow German, POW; and the Americans turning a beautiful city into that scene from The Twilight Zone.
AYY LMAO
>>7417557
DUDE YOU'RE RIGHT I NEVER REALIZED HOW RICH OP'S POST WAS WITH ITS MEMETIC VALENCE
>>7417566
This thread is better written than a Vonnegut novel
>>7417566
sincere lol at this meme remix
