Post-modernism paper

What is everyone doing for the post-modernism paper thinggggg?
because i kind of get it but i'm sort of having some writers block issues or something. i'm finding it really hard to describe why Slaughter House-Five is post-modern. Gr.

I dont know how to write 3 pages on something i don't get.
so far its just me reflecting randomly about SH5

haaaaah.

so i'm trying to finish slaughter house five.
except south park is on.
and kenny has lice.



"i told you only poor people get lice!"

sh5 ...arrival at dresden

i was really really surprised after Billy's arrival at Dresden. Up until that point, the book was really funny and dark, but still fun. As they get to Dresden, it seems like Vonnegut completely changes his tone and the war isn't something to make fun of at that point. Even though Vonnegut feels like the only thing we can do is laugh at war when we can't understand it, it is impossible for him to not take the bombing of dresden seriously.
His tone just changes so quickly to serious, and instead of laughing at everyone's sickness and craziness he just tells the story.
i really like that he can be so entertaining, but he seriously respects how awful war was. I think a lot of the time we have to make fun of something or else it's too much to handle, but Vonnegut just knows exactly where to draw the line.

SH5 so far?

I think maybe that Billy (and the narrator) is using 'So it goes' as a form of isloation. ( one of Freud's defense mechanisms..) When Billy says 'so it goes' every time a person dies, he makes death seem like it's not a big deal. He tries to take the emotion out of death by pretending that it is just a moment in time where the dead person is in a "bad condition." After Billy's plane crash, he starts going 'senile'..or whatever... i think that the whole fabrication of Tralfadore is just a way that Billy unconsciously deals with death and war. Being able to look at death, shrug and say "so it goes" is just a defense that keeps appearing over and over again throughout the book.

and for my fourth blog today

i am going to be as random as possible and quote a neutral milk hotel song called communist daughter. because it reminded me of the communist article assignment. go figure.

"Sweet communist
The communist daughter
Standing on the sea-weed water"
----
With coca leaves along the border
Sweetness sings from every corner
Cars careening from the clouds
The bridges burst and twist around
And wanting something warm and moving
Bends towards herself the soothing
Proves that she must still exist
She moves herself about her fist
Sweet communist
The communist daughter
Standing on the sea-weed water.,

and that's all i can put because there are kind of bad-ish things in that song that i shouldn't put on here.......
and like..this blog has no point. i'm not even sure what the song is about.
if anybody knows...feel free to tell me.

okay this has nothing to do with english.

but does anyone have last.fm
if you do...
add me.

'you can't spell slaughter without laughter'

slaughter house five is greaaaaat.
"and hitler turned into a baby"

Wild Bob is really sad, i'm kind of glad he died though
and
i'm just kind of reading all this for the first time right now

Why does Billy's daughter's wedding have the orange and black stripes (the ones that show the freight trains w/ prisoners of war.)?? i don't really see the connection... so like..the american soldiers can't bomb his daughter's wedding because there are american prisoners there?..

it seems like there's a lot of colors and other stuff that billy associates with the war that reoccur throughout the book. The orange and black stripes and the ivory and blue feet. I guess that's because he's still traumatized maybe? He never got over the war and that's why he cries.

okay i'm done now.
..........

communism.

oookay. here's my article that has something to do with communism from marxist.net.... or something. : (ps. i have no idea what i'm doing)
http://www.marxist.net/statement/socialism.htm


and basically...that article is from a socialist magazine, written from a socialist's point of view.
the article talks about the future of socialism, and how a lot of socialists today don't really have a good vision of how a socialist government would work in the future.
There is a lot of information on the collapse of Stalinism. There is even more info on the econimic ups and downs of capitalism.




oh and i know someone named carl marcs. how amazing is that? i win.