4 Dimensions?

I would love to be able to perceive time like the Tralfamadorians. For them, time is very different. They are capable of seeing the world in four dimensions. “They can see how permanent all the moments are and they can look at any moment that interests them.”(pg.27) Can you imagine how much easier our lives would be if we looked at time this way?  Death would not be as dreadful, since everyone would always exist in the past. Bad times wouldn’t be as disappointing, since we could go back to our  happy times.  Our past would never get lost in time, but we would still be able to advance towards our future. Our lives would not be in chronological order, and neither is the book in this chapter.  I think that this chapter gave us an example of how a Tralfamadorian would see Billy’s life.

In my previous response, I had mentioned how Vonnegut was obsessed with time. I think he wrote about the Tralfamadorians because he would also like to be able to see the world in four dimensions.