"We must be careful about what we pretend to be" I remember (Slaughterhouse 5): If God exists he is God-the-Utterly-Indifferent I read Slaughterhouse 5, and it was a great book, but when I saw there was a movie, I thought How are they going to turn that book into a movie ? The movie managed to carry the book, but as with books and movies, the movie wasn't the way I imagined the book to be. God may seem to act indifferently on the grounds that if we claim to be able to solve the worlds problems, we are being given the perfect opportunity. We can just have a problem knowing trouble when we see it. Clearly we're not doing a very good job of solving our own problems. God is likely to reply "Never can you say that you weren't allowed to do what you wanted, what is becoming clear, a lot of what you want is not good for fo... I thin that especially with a writer like Vonnegut, where irony constantly pushes against the illusion of the narrative 'reality, we shouldn't take a statement by author or character as a statement of truth. Sometimes where a piece of text collides with our own interior universe we stop and think, and hopefully don't get 'stuck' with it. Humour is why angels fly, why somehow Vonnegut's only way into the horrors of Dresden was to abandon his first iron-heavy serious attempt and come up with a sort of joke. Humour is a serious thing. Vonnegut also left us an image in S5 of God as a huge grinning Cheshire cat!  Those , in themselves, are pretty damn cool. |
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