Pilgrim's Existentialism

First appearing on page 11, the recurring phrase, “so it goes” is the narrator’s signal a character’s life has passed, or is currently passing. The repetition of the words highlights that time is perpetually continual, Vonnegut employs this technique in order to show the death and war that arrive with time are also inevitable. And, to remind his audience that one must either accept them or be terminally struck with the grief that comes with both. Concurrently, it reveals the errors in Pilgrim’s existentialist philosophy allegedly learned from the Traflamadorians, or the cyclopean beings from the dimension of time. Which explains that if someone is dead in one moment, they were alive at one point and can be visited through thought and time