Jeremysean55Dec 15
@[email protected] @daringfireball
so it goes?
Show threadBrad H

@Jeremysean55 @[email protected] @daringfireball A reference to the novel Slaughterhouse Five

«When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes.’»

Dec 15 at 6:10amMona for iPhone
Show threadJeremysean55Dec 15
@Bracl @[email protected] @daringfireball I recognized the quote. But Gruber is not Vonnegut; Tralfamadorian philosophy is a fiction; Gruber has not, as far as I know, used the phrase when other people have died; and this is real life not fiction.
But then maybe I am being an (scrawled asterisks- breakfast of champions if I remember rightly).
Show threadDenisDec 15
@Jeremysean55 @Bracl @Wyatt_H_Knott @daringfireball It is a phrase which Gruber commonly uses when someone dies. I have seen it in many of his posts. I read it as his way of expressing grief and respect for a good life. And everyone expresses their feelings in their own way.
Show threadJeremysean55Dec 15
@denis @Bracl @[email protected] @daringfireball I don’t think commonly.
Show threadDenisDec 15

@Jeremysean55 @Bracl @Wyatt_H_Knott @daringfireball

Google: site:daringfireball.net “so it goes.”

Of course your definition of “commonly” may not apply.

Otherwise, my point remains. Everyone expresses their grief or shock in their own way.

Show threadDatalessDec 15

@Jeremysean55 @Bracl @Wyatt_H_Knott @daringfireball

I initially read it as a reference to Reiner’s poorly-received 2014 film of (almost) the same name, but a quick google search confirms that Gruber has used it in reference to some deaths in the past. As a three-word response to a double-murder it feels callous, but then Gruber’s writing (like his thinking) has been getting sloppy in the last couple of years.