no telegraphs Tralfamadore. right: clump symbols a brief, urgent messa — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

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There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message– describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

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