On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesu…

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On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes. ✨ KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
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