so it goes

[Terrance]

Terrance is posting drunk again......

Ain't no drunk doin no solitary tap dance 
I swear I's just been ridin on a field mouse
I been out dancin in the slaughterhouse
cause I went a little crazy
And I'm smokin like diesel
cause I always gets a little lazy
when there's white canvas on the easel
but I put on a little Waits 
since the last time that you seen me
got my green eyes stretching canvas
and I'll be ready for the show
now blow wind blow, now


Writing in Critique, Wayne D. McGinnis comments that in
Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut 'avoids framinghis story in
linear  narration, choosing a circular structure. Such a
view of the art of the novel has much to do with the
protagonist . . . Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist who provides
corrective lenses for Earthlings. For Pilgrim, who learns of
a new view of life as  he becomes "unstuck in time," the
lenses are corrective metaphorically as well as physically.
Quite early in the
exploration of Billy's life the reader learns that "frames
are where the money is. ". . .Historical events like the
bombing of Dresden are usually
'read' in the framework of moral and historical
interpretation.' McGinnis feels that
the novel's cyclical nature is inextricably bound up with
the themes of 'time,
death, and renewal,' and goes on to say that 'the most
important function of "so it goes" [a phrase that recurs at
each death in the  book] . . . , is its imparting a cyclical
quality to the novel, both in form  and content.
Paradoxically, the expression of fatalism serves as a source
of renewal, a situation typical of Vonnegut's works,for it
enables the novel to go on despite -- even because of -- the
proliferation of deaths.'"