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Title: A Plea for Humanity
Review: The author's recent death caused me to explore this remarkably well written novela, an outcry against the atrocities of human life and particularly war. The matter-of-fact, low key narration of the life of a common man, Billy Pilgrim, swept up in peresonal and societal upheavals utterly beyond his control is painted as utterly ordinary but wholly unbelievable by Billy's claim of alien abduction in flying saucers, and the simple literary device of punctuating the frequent deaths of people associated with Billy with the phrae, "So it goes."With the advent of the current mindless brutality of crusaders and jihadists in that hot bed of stupidity, the Middle East, we can once again sigh, "So it goes." Sadly, the immolation of the open city of Dresden without cause may well be repeated in Tehran as well as Fallujah.
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