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Stuck by Tommy Ingberg

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Vonnegut’s Battle

William Deresiewicz argues Slaughterhouse-Five is “not about time travel and flying saucers, it’s about PTSD”:

The novel is framed by Vonnegut’s account of trying to write about Dresden—of trying to remember Dresden. But a different kind of memory became the novel’s very fabric. “He tried to remember how old he was, couldn’t.” This is Billy the optometrist. “He tried to remember what year it was. He couldn’t remember that, either.” For the traumatized soldier, the war is always present, and the present is always the war.

He is unstuck in time in the sense that he is stuck in time. His life is not linear, but radiates instead from a single event like the spokes of a wheel. Everything feels like a dream: a very bad dream. The novel is framed the way it is because Vonnegut, too, was traveling in time. He needed to make himself a part of the story because he already was a part of the story.

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cavetocanvas:

Edmund Dulac, illustration from The Rubaiyat

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Maurice Lalau ~ He Pressed Her to His Heart ~ The Romance of Tristram and Iseult ~ 1909 ~ via

Under the trees he pressed her to his heart without a word.

Translated from the French by Florence Simmonds ~ London: William Heinemann ~ c1910

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daviddallavenezia:

Ernest Pignon Ernest David & Goliath

mythologyofblue:

Caravaggio, David and Goliath.  A variation by Ernest Pignon Ernest, black chalk drawing of the severed heads of Pasolini and Caravaggio at the Via Seminario dei Nobili, 1988.

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paperimages:

Angela Bacon-Kidwell,   Wichita Falls,Texas

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The Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adam Pynacker: Dutch c. 1640

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peira:

Fritz Boscovits (1871-1965):  Pierrot (not dated) via Dobiaschofsky

labellefilleart:

Baigneuses, Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet 

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necspenecmetu:

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Love and the Maiden, 1877

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cavetocanvas:

Lucas Cranach the Younger, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, after 1532

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artinthepicture:

The Good Samaritan by Ferdinand Hodler

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solairebee:

Concerning Hobbits by *Blinck

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 174, detail of f. 83r (the Flood). Augustine, De civitate dei. Paris, beginning of the 15th century.

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