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Billy couldn\u2019t read Tralfamadorian, of course, but he could at least see how the books were laid out\u2014in brief clumps of symbols separated by stars. Billy commented that the clumps might be telegrams. <\/p>\n
\u201cExactly,\u201d said the voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are telegrams?”<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no telegrams on Tralfamadore. But you\u2019re right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message\u2014describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn\u2019t any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful, surprising, and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”<\/h5>\n

\u2014Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children\u2019s Crusade
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Billy couldn\u2019t read Tralfamadorian, of course, but he could at least see how the books were laid out\u2014in brief clumps of symbols separated by stars. Billy commented that the clumps might be telegrams. \u201cExactly,\u201d said the voice. \u201cThey are telegrams?” \u201cThere are no telegrams on Tralfamadore. But you\u2019re right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message\u2014describing a situation, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}