Thursday, September 10, 2009

Chapter 4

The Tralfamadorian thought of time emphasizes the role of fate in shaping existence and completely rejects free will. When Billy is kidnapped, he understands fate has really set itself into his life and already has it's mind made up. Billy’s question “Why me?” reveals the limits of human consciousness. Time: if we think so much of it why cant we control it? Because if we control it we control fate. the universe has already chose what we rule and what rules us. we rule: nothing and fate rules: what is meant to end.

Chapter 3

"Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."
I guess my last thought was wrong according to this quote. Change is futile in destiny. The heavens have your entire life mapped out? Why if spontaneity is practically the purpose of life? Well i guess it works for us because we're not the heavens (yet). Billy's unexpected visitors make Vonnegut list billys inconsequential entire life as if it were mere words which to billy they would be.

Chapter Two

To find balance in life is hard to do and/or hard to recuperate. I say this because Billy in his leaps through time he loses focus of what is going on as many of us do. We let moments pass us by due to "dilly dallying" because we lose the goal of the moment. We see Billy all at once his beginning his middle and almost his end; Which is how we wish to see ourselves instead of wait for the moment to know whats going to happen. But why do the people who say they can not see everything but one generalized moment and not so far into the future? Is it because destiny works like a stone skipping on the water? wakes affecting other wakes representing moments in your life?

Chapter 1

"why don't you write a book about glaciers?"
Chapter 1 although it's a sort of prologue its the end of the book. In the sense that it tells the end and that he used this as part of his book and not as in introduction even though it is autobiographical. there must have been a reason this was chapter one and not "Introduction" i think it was because his story is very important in his life so instead of separating he had to mix them together to create " his life".

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Utopia In Terza Rima.

In the garden of Eden,
Full of bounty.
Evil souls beaten,

Pure souls sent to heavens county
With a good deed,
Like a Canadian Mountie.

Gods seed
Sprouts an endless flower.
The money trees speed,

Only you have the power.
To forgive a sin is irrelevant.
There is no end to our hour.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Poetic Justice: The Twilight Zone: Two

Today when I saw the twilight zone for the first time I was a little baffled at what was going on. The story keep's developing itself. the small town is decimated by a bomb or war; and the two character's are from opposing sides but they stay together mostly to survive. The man: Is a man tired of violence and fighting he just wants the fighting between the girl and him to end because the war is over. The woman: Is a solider who cant give up her purpose in the war easily. I think this is poetic justice because the women is forced to lose her act of solider to be with a man she likes and needs to survive. so the woman as a solider is forced to a life as a civilian and nonviolence to survive instead of fighting to survive.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

My conversation with my cousin, Dirk

7:56pmDaniel

Hey primo.

7:56pmDirk

Hey

7:57pmDaniel

How are you?

7:57pmDirk

Good.

How are you?

7:58pmDaniel

I'm alright.

7:59pmDirk

Ok.

How's everything over there?

7:59pmDaniel

Same as usual; not fun and depressing.

8:00pmDirk

Don't worry about it

You will be living in America again before you know it!

8:01pmDaniel

Yeah, with you.

8:01pmDirk

Yeah!!

8:03pmDaniel

So how are you and Marie doing?

8:03pmDirk

Pretty good.

8:03pmDaniel

That's good.

8:03pmDirk

she thinks i'l go with other girls though!

8:03pmDaniel

Guess what.

8:03pmDirk

And it's not true!

8:04pmDaniel

Oh, wow. That's harsh. Even for her.

8:05pmDirk

I know!

8:07pmDaniel

Guess what.

8:07pmDirk

what?

8:08pmDaniel
I'm in a pre-ap class ha.
8:13pmDirk

Cool!

8:18pmDaniel
Yeah.
8:19pmDirk

:):)

8:19pmDaniel

Haha.

Yeah but school is really hard.

8:20pmDirk

Why so hard?

8:20pmDaniel

psychologically.

I just miss Florida way too much.

And it's hard for me too keep on being here.

8:21pmDirk

Yeah me too!

Don't worry primo!!

You will be back in America really soon!

8:22pmDaniel

I don't know.

8:22pmDirk

You will!!

8:22pmDaniel

My parent's really want to stay.

8:23pmDirk

Isn't Carlos going over there?

8:24pmDaniel

Over where? Back to Melbourne?

8:24pmDirk

Yes?

8:24pmDaniel

Nope, i don't think so.

8:24pmDirk

If you don't go to America

You will come and live here with me!

8:25pmDaniel

Hey, I'll be right back. Talk with my parents.

8:25pmDirk

ok!