238:; meaning, roughly, that they have total access to past, present, and future; they are able to perceive any point in time at will. Able to see along the timeline of the universe, they know the exact time and place of its accidental annihilation as the result of a Tralfamadorian experiment, but are powerless to prevent it. Because they believe that when a being dies, it continues to live in other times and places, their response to death is, "So it goes." They are placid in their
138:. The Tralfamadorians were originally developed by super-beings who built them to allow themselves to search for a meaning to their lives. Unable to achieve this task, they eventually asked the machines to do it for them. Learning that they could not be said to have any purpose at all, the precursor race decided to eradicate itself, only to realize that they were not even very good at this, so they used the Tralfamadorians instead to complete the annihilation of their race.
230:... they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings about time.
160:, Tralfamadore is the home to beings who exist in all times simultaneously, and are thus privy to knowledge of future events, including the destruction of the universe at the hands of a Tralfamadorian test pilot. They kidnap Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of the novel, and place him in a zoo on Tralfamadore with Montana Wildhack, an adult film star.
169:, Tralfamadore is the planet nearest to a meeting place of ancient multi-dimensional beings who supposedly control all aspects of human life, including social affairs and politics. Unlike humans, the Tralfamadorians have too much of a sense of humor to be affected by the beings. The exploits of the multi-dimensional beings are chronicled in
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We Are What We
Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
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27:Fictional planet mentioned in Kurt Vonnegut works
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607:Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
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485:God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
364:God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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104:, vary from novel to novel:
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739:Like Shaking Hands with God
526:Welcome to the Monkey House
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173:(a title which parodies
637:A Man Without a Country
507:Collected short fiction
88:is the name of several
69:In-universe information
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657:Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
627:Fates Worse Than Death
384:Breakfast of Champions
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116:Small Magellanic Cloud
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516:Canary in a Cat House
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840:Who Am I This Time?
790:Slaughterhouse-Five
566:While Mortals Sleep
374:Slaughterhouse-Five
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259:Slaughterhouse Five
220:Slaughterhouse-Five
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111:The Sirens of Titan
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556:Look at the Birdie
218:In the 1969 novel
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108:In the 1959 novel
78:Terrestrial planet
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