Word: tralfamadorians
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...goes" is a phrase from Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade. It's an expression the Tralfamadorians - a race of four-dimensional aliens - repeat whenever somebody or something dies. It expresses a certain airy resignation about the inevitability of death. Vonnegut - who died Wednesday night at the age of 84 from injuries suffered in a fall - had the Tralfamadorian attitude. "I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was 12 or 14," he told Rolling Stone last year. "So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them...
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