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	Tralfamadore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In The Sirens of Titan, Tralfamadore is a planet in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the home of a civilization of machines, which dispatches Salo to a distant galaxy with a message for its inhabitants.
		Rosewater, Tralfamadore is a hypothetical foreign planet, used in a purely rhetorical sense as part of a thought exercise.
		In Slaughterhouse-Five, Tralfamadore is the home to beings who exist in all times simultaneously, and are thus privy to knowledge of future events, including the destruction of the universe at the hands of a Tralfamadorian test pilot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tralfamadore (345 words)

	PlanetPapers - Slaughterhouse-Five - Realitivity of Time
		Even though Billy knows ahead of time, because he has “seen” the future before it happens, he knows that he is only marrying her to get funding from her father to start his own company.
		Billy says that the aliens abducted him on his daughter’s wedding night and returned him a few milliseconds later, but actually spend many months on Tralfamadore because the Tralfamadorians can also see in the fourth dimension, time, which allowed them to keep Billy for what seemed like longer than what he was actually there.
		While on Tralfamadore, Billy learns to accept his life as it is dealt to him because nothing that happens to you damages you forever.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2899.php (981 words)

	Propylon CTO Article - Data storage and data transmission - a tale of two worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On Tralfamadore, big business got involved early in data storage very early on and encouraged government to regulate access to disk space to avoid this mythical "interference".
		On Tralfamadore, disk space is in the hands of a few big players who can and do stop new entrants into the market by using their government-given exclusive rights.
		This has proven to be amazingly accurate and Tralfamadore has seen levels of innovation and commercial activity in data transmission on a par with the levels we have seen on Earth in data storage.
	www.propylon.com /news/ctoarticles/040615_two_worlds.html (796 words)

	SparkNotes: Slaughterhouse-Five: Chapter 5
		When Billy praises the peacefulness of Tralfamadore, the aliens inform him that Tralfamadorians are at war sometimes and at peace at others.
		His daughter, Barbara, scolds him, notices that it is cold in the house, and leaves to call the oil-burner man after putting Billy to bed.
		It seems possible that Tralfamadore is something that he merely imagines, especially since he begins reading Kilgore Trout’s science fiction at a stage in which he feels he is losing whatever grip he has on reality.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/slaughter/section5.rhtml (1269 words)

	GradeSaver: Slaughterhouse Five Essay: Insanity of War in Slaughterhouse Five
		The fantastical Tralfamadore is a planet where Billy escapes to when he feels life's stresses; however mad Billy seems to have become, Tralfamadore doubles to reveal Vonnegut's earnest fatalistic views.
		Tralfamadore is the epitome of all that is right in the universe and points out all that is wrong on Earth.
		Billy and Montana are supposed to populate Tralfamadore with Earthlings, to start the human race over on a clean slate, and in an environment away from the war and unexplainable evils on Earth.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/slaughterhousefive/essay1.html (1318 words)

	SG Sh-5 Film
		Tralfamadorians: Intelligent, spacefaring creatures from Tralfamadore, or creatures only in the mind of Billy Pilgrim as he desperately tries to escape from the pain of memory and the responsibility remembering would place upon him.
		BP to dome on Tralfamadore, applause, dialog between BP and never-shown Tralfamadorian.
		Part of one morning he might spend on the distant planet Tralfamadore with sexy movie bombshell Montana Wildhack..., and at the same time be in a ditch in Belgium in world War II where he is set upon by GIs Paul Lazzaro...and Roland Weary..., and then captured by German soldiers....
	www.users.muohio.edu /erlichRD/vms_site/sh5f.htm (1239 words)

	Slaughterhouse-Five Essays - Free Slaughterhouse-Five Essays: Manipulation of Time and Place
		Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist, jumps from place to place and is in a constant time warp while on the planet Tralfamadore.
		Since Vonnegut uses the planet Tralfamadore and the Tralfamadorian people to take Billy from place to place and time frame to time frame, in the novel he constantly respects the phrase "So it goes," which describes the Tralfamadorians' view of death.
		Billy can be on Tralfamadore for years, while only being absent from earth for a microsecond (26).
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=3015 (756 words)

	Slaughterhouse-Five Essays - Futile Search for Answers in Slaughterhouse Five
		When Billy travels to Tralfamadore he is in an "imaginary" state, everything that happens to him is more like a dream.
		In Tralfamadore Billy meets these creatures that are called Tralfamadorians, "they were two feet high, and green...their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky;" (4).
		Tralfamadore is like traveling to the future for Billy who is trying to get as far away from his past as he can.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=16363 (1078 words)

	VAGMA: Virginia Angora Goat & Mohair Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tralfamadore farm is nested in the Shanendoah Valley between Harrisonburg and New Market.
		Tralfamadore is a fiber farm offering Finn and Lincoln sheep for sale and Angora Goats.
		The shop at Tralfamadore Farm is open by appointment.
	www.angoragoats.com /tralfmadore.html (140 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		He's typing these very words in the basement of his comfortable suburban home when suddenly, he is a young GI again, in a snowy European forest during World War II, behind enemy lines, barely eluding a German patrol.
		The next moment, he's in the future, on the planet Tralfamadore, with his girlfriend, the actress and centerfold model Montana Wildhack (Perrine).
		At the same time, a middle-aged Billy has been transported to a dome on the planet Tralfamadore, 423 billion miles from earth.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue127/classic.html (647 words)

	Slaughterhouse-Five Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The narrator continues, describing one of his fantasy voyages to Tralfamadore, where he is exhibited in a zoo.
		From his ordinary life in NewYork, he travels to Tralfamadore, and is mated to a movie star named Montana Wildhack.
		Tralfamadore, the creation of Billy’s imagination, is his paradise.
	members.aol.com /Martinlc/slhouser.html (772 words)

	..: it's a trap! \| Reviews: The Alpine, Envelopes, Jeremiha, Madrugada, The Radio Dept., Tiger Lou, Vapnet
		"Live at Tralfamadore" is a live record based primarily on their December, 2005 concert at the Oslo Spektrum, and "Live at Oslo Spektrum" is a DVD of that show.
		Both are more like top notch souveniers than new additions to their catalogue (they themselves referred to the live record as #4.5 rather than #5), but both feature excellent songs performed with stellar musicianship and passion.
		Both feature one new song, "You better leave," which is darker than most of "The deep end," and a moving rendition of "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child," an old spiritual that makes it easy to imagine ever-amazing singer Sivert Høyem working the cotton fields of the old south, despite his arctic pallor.
	www.itsatrap.com /index.php?article=176 (1469 words)

	Amazon.com: Slaughterhouse Five: DVD: George Roy Hill,Michael Sacks,Ron Leibman,Eugene Roche,Sharon Gans,Valerie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Interspersed with his leapfrog adventures in time, Billy also finds himself being transported to and from the distant planet Tralfamadore, whose invisible inhabitants enclose him in a glass dome furnished with Sears Roebuck furniture and a kittenish Hollywood starlet (Valerie Perrine), to whom Billy is expected to make love.
		In other words, a being is not an objective, corporeal identity existing in a state of temporal flux; a being is an abstract entity that is simultaneously all the different things he has done, is doing, and will do.
		Even beyond death to the planet Tralfamadore where he can spent time with the lovely Hollywood actress Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine) who mysteriously disappeared without leaving a clue to her possible whereabouts.
	www.amazon.com /Slaughterhouse-Five-George-Roy-Hill/dp/6305077592 (2949 words)

	Term-Papers.us - Slaughterhouse Five
		We bounce back and forth to the times of his marraige, time in Tralfamadore, and to the times in Dresden, Germany.
		After this it is hard for me to piece together quite what he is doing next, for he jumps around to different periods of time so frequently, but i guess he is taken to Tralfamadore sometime during his college years.
		Tralfamadore is the planet that he is taken to by his alien friends.
	www.term-papers.us /ts/da/eqw31.shtml (662 words)

	SparkNotes: Slaughterhouse-Five: Chapter 9
		But behind his catatonic facade he is preparing to tell the world about Tralfamadore and to explain the true nature of time.
		Billy waits his turn, then speaks about Tralfamadore and Montana Wildhack and the nature of time.
		There he falls asleep and time-travels back to Tralfamadore, where Montana is breast-feeding their child.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/slaughter/section9.rhtml (1029 words)

	Tralfamadore Farm & Studio: Fiber, Wool, Weaving, Angora Goats, Sheep, Angora Rabbits
		Tralfamadore Farm & Studio: Fiber, Wool, Weaving, Angora Goats, Sheep, Angora Rabbits
		Tralfamadore Farm is a fiber farm that is nestled in the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley.
		Angora goats, rabbits, sheep and llamas live here and share their beautiful fiber.
	www.tralfamadorefarm.com /index.htm (210 words)

	NovelGuide: Slaughterhouse-Five: Metaphor Analysis
		The planet of Tralfamadore, where Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack are held in a zoo, can be read as a symbol for the worldview that allowed Billy to assimilate his war experiences into his post-war life.
		He is a success by the standards of his peers yet he feels as satisfied in his home as he does on an alien planet.
		In this manner the dwelling on Tralfamadore provides Billy with the perspective he needs to judge his life and the flexibility to adopt a new outlook.
	www.novelguide.com /Slaughterhouse-Five/metaphoranalysis.html (740 words)

	Essay on Slaughter House 5
		Earth and Tralfamadore are the two main places and also contain many differences.
		Unlike Earth, Tralfamadore is a utopian society, while Earth is in war.
		In the story, the birth of Billy in 1922 symbolizes newly acquired life.
	www.dedicatedwriters.com /paper/Slaughter_House_5-125533.html (167 words)

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		Tralfamadore is a featured planet in many of the works of Kurt Vonnegut.
		Vonnegut uses it as a device to upend some of the things we take for granted in our world.
	www.tralfamadore.com /index.html (134 words)

	BookRags: Slaughterhouse-Five Book Notes
		The narrator opens with an elaborate hyperbole of a subtitle for the book, explaining that he is a veteran living in easy circumstances, who witnessed the bombing of Dresden, Germany as a prisoner of war and survived to tell the tale in the manner of the planet of Tralfamadore where the flying saucers come from.
		He was abducted and kept in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, where he was mated with movie star Montana Wildhack.
		In the last chapter, the narrator tells of how he traveled back to Dresden, and how Billy and the other prisoners had been made to dig up corpses from the ruins.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/sl5/SUM.html (666 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		He learns that time is not necessarily moving in a liner fashion and that the secret of life is to live only in the happy moments.
		Billy lives on Earth and on the distant planet Tralfamadore, responding to events with the resignated slogan "So it goes".
		For roughly twenty years, from 1950 to 1970, Vonnegut led, much as his fictional alter ego Kilgore Trout, the anonymous life of a drugstore-rack writer, who is said to have been modelled on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /vonnegut.htm (1605 words)

	Leah Zicari - Artistry in voice, guitar and song.
		One, is her intelligent lyrics, the other is the honesty and integrity that stamp every syllable she sings.
		Saturday in the Tralfamadore Cafe, Zicari, with drummer Nick Corallo and bassist Geno Rzeznik, delivered a crisp dozen originals that had the intimacy of a cocoon.
		Defying easy categorization, Zicari displayed a wide range of styles, all served from a delicate palette of tonal colors.
	www.leahzicari.com /pk/otw.htm (289 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
		The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.
		He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Death (4060 words)

	Letters to Tralfamadore - Letter #1 / Drum Roll, Please by Gayle Essary — eisenhower, college, palestine \| Gather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Letters to Tralfamadore - Letter #1 / Drum Roll, Please by Gayle Essary — eisenhower, college, palestine
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		As he stood unloading the rental truck, he peered back over the unloaded furniture towards the front of the cargo area and shrieked, "Hey Joe, come look at this. There's a car in here!"
	www.gather.com /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976726357 (1117 words)

	Untitled Document
		Live At Tralfamadore draws on material from the four full-length Platinum selling studio albums Madrugada have recorded over the last seven years and confirms their status as one of Europe’s premier rock bands, as popular in Germany or Greece as they are in their native Norway.
		Now, a tour de force concert recording of Strange Colour Blue from L’Ancienne Belgique is included on Live At Tralfamadore, much to the delight of vocalist Sivert Høyem.
		I just love that book and I thought this imaginary planet –Tralfamadore – would fit, since the album is not live at one place.
	www.emi.no /madrugada/biography.asp (904 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Warren Zevon Live at Tralfamadore Cafe on 1986-06-12
		This is not only a great Zevon recording but a phenomenal venue for a live act.
		Being an Excitable BUFFALO Boy myself - transplanted to Denver 21 years ago - the Tralfamadore Cafe or simply "The TRALF" as it's known in Buffalo, is a longstanding local rock/folk/jazz club institution.
		Picture this 12 string acoustic and piano performance in the brick-walled, downtown underground nightclub atmosphere that is the TRALF.
	www.archive.org /audio/etree-details-db.php?id=24389 (629 words)

	BookRags: Slaughterhouse-Five Study Guide
		He asks, "Why me?" (76) They simply respond that there is no why for him or for them.
		They are all there because the moment is structured to make them pick him up and carry him to Tralfamadore.
		Billy falls asleep and wakes up in a boxcar crossing Germany in 1944.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-slaughterhousefive/chapanal004.html (183 words)

	Tralfamadore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Here are some things you probably didn't know about Tralfamadore:
		There are five sexes on Tralfamadore, each of them performing a step necessary in the creation of a new individual.
		They believe that you can't change the past, the present or the future since all moments in time already exist.
	www.oatridge.co.uk /tralf.shtml (252 words)

	ENG/FST 350 Study Guides - Readings
		Tralfamadorians: Intelligent creatures from the planet Tralfamadore, who capture Billy Pilgrim and display him and M. Wildhack in their zoo—"really" or only in Billy Pilgrim's mind.
		Also, Billy Pilgrim winds up in the zoo on Tralfamadore with a woman who knows a bit about pornography herself.
		Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does.
	www.users.muohio.edu /erlichRD/satire/readings.html (6243 words)

	LitKicks: God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
		In 'Galapagos', genetic and other "accidents" lead to the future evolution of the human race.
		In 'Hocus Pocus', the Elders of Tralfamadore are using the planet Earth in a series of experiments designed to create a virus that can survive space travel.
		Vonnegut's fondness for this theme is traceable to a passage at the beginning of Thomas Wolfe's 'Look Homeward, Angel', a book Vonnegut says he read "when I was supposed to," at the age of 18.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=KurtVonnegut (2400 words)

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