![]() ![]() They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. Billy promised to tell what some of those wonderful things were in his next letter.īilly was working on his second letter when the first letter was published. They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. “The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.” The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Over France though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. ![]() “It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.Īmericans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. No such tales are told by the American poor. ![]() Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. “America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
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