04 May 08 4:25 am
The real story of Slaughterhouse 5
Timequake was one of Kurt Vonnegut's last books. He just died. Breakfast of Champions was recommended to me in college by a friend who knew me well, I have a certain flakiness that is essential to life and it shows up in my writing. The writing style that I sometimes get into he noticed was inside Breakfast of CHampions. Whenever a new writing style is created, one has to look who published a book like that first. For the mid 1970's Vonnegut was ahead of his time.
I never read Slaughterhouse 5 because I like to read books no one reads, so that I can get the scoop from them and I can teach them about something they know nothing about.
Kurt was a prisoner of war in World War II. He was kept in one of the Stalag POW camps in Dresden. What happened there, was that since the Germans had bombarded London and it wasn't a Military strategic objective, the English decided to obliterate Dresden from the air.
Vonnegut was part of the detail to go around Dresden after it was bombed, and pull bodies from the rubble. After sorting thru body parts for however long in slave labor and created pathways thru the streets the war ended, and emaciated as he was he rose his head with the other feeble ones to escape the POW camp. The way he wrote the moment of securing his freedom the colors he used, was sort of the way the China countryside is now in peacetime.
Dresden was not just a slave labor detail, that is where the Germans through the centuries had their kinky fantasies played out. Dresden was notorious for Domintrixes and Masters and the Germans were some very evil people.
I guess they had an agreement with the Germans to pulverize the city, for the dungeons were too vast in the city and torturing people for centuries in there was the real Slaughterhouse 5, not Stalag X or whatever. Unfortunately killing someone through lechery, or molesting children raping your own children leaves terrible spirits in buildings, and spots of bad energy exist in such households. The only thing you can do is carpet bomb the entire city and hope no more such slavery is done. Bad spirits do exist, I have done some bad things in my time and I get the feeling in the buildings I have done them they have had to destroy the buildings I lived in. Believe me people know what the hell you are doing, the bad energy in such places rings of evil.
The bombing of Dresden makes perfect sense, the torture there made Germans incompassionate warriors, the best soldiers in the world. That is where they built the Master race. IN fact Hitler sacrificed all of those Nazis as gun fodder for their was something wrong with them. YOu can be tall, beautiful, but to be heartless without soul is criminality. They, the Germans, back then, were incredibally sensitive men when it came to untying someone from an interrogation room. Once they cut off all of your fingers and you did not talk, they beamed at you. They respected unbreakable men.
I also read the moons of Titan, one of Jupiter's moons, the one with the seas of Methane. There was some fabulous woman out there on the corner of the solar system.
I don't like Vonnegut, I hated him because he never told it like it is, he wrote in such a way, as to rub it in your face what you just learned. He knew it all, but he was no educator. If you are a masochist he was the best. He understood brainwashing and loss of the self. The Nazis were cruel to the POWS, they even shot you in the back of the head on a whim or for payback if a bombing raid killed a sentries wife and his children. Just BAM, in the back of your head. Most Stalag Prisoner of War camps had the tunnelers, the Germans knew about it and let them tunnel, it was good exercize, and it gave men hope. When the tunnel was nearly done then they would swoop in and deny escape to the men.
I am writing a war book so I know all about this, the stuff on Dresden about it being the bondage capital of the world is from empirical evidence, the famous bondage series known as THE DRESDEN DIARIES. To understand why it was totally leveled from the air for no apparent reason and my own experience dabbling in the roladex of sins and feeling the latent bad energy from such places makes this a hypothetical understanding or rationale for the case. IT is not fact, but a breaking of the Matrix when all things are considered, then rash judgements can be derived. No one is kinkier than the Germans.
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