"They could look at a peak or a cloud or a bird, at a stone right in front of them, or even down into a canyon behind them."page 115
I have to say, I enjoy the science fiction aspects of the novel. Extraterrestrial life fascinates me, and it is especially enjoyable to imagine the tralfamadorians and their world. I especially am interested in their perception of time. Time is not chronological to them; they see all time at once. I have never pictured time in this regard. I have always had the "arrow of time" explanation of time in my mind. I suspect Billy is really fond of this way of perceiving time, as it completely discourages an attitude of sorrow towards death. Death, which Billy has seen so much of in the war, is probably enormously scary to him. With the tralfamadorian interpretation of time, Billy can feel undaunted when approached with death.
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