... whenever the character Billy Pilgrim encounters death. He is basically saying that death is no big deal. Vonnegut even uses the phrase "so it goes" in the first chapter to describe himself as a "pillar of salt"(22). He calls the book a failure, this helps to support the fact that war is always a failure and ... based on it. To help understand the phrase "so it goes", what it means, and why the character Billy Pilgrim uses it every time someone dies, we must first understand the character Billy Pilgrim. Billy is certainly slow and could be considered an idiot. Billy just goes with the flow...

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