On page 117, Billy is on Tralfamadore in the zoo there where many Tralfamadorians come to get a sight of him. They ask him questions about himself and about Earth. Once, Billy speaks of all the wars on Earth and asks the Tralfamadorians how they are so peacefull on their planet. The say that they have lots of wars but at the moment it is peaceful. Through the Tralfamadorians ability to see life on a line of whenever they want, they don't have to focus on the bad things, like wars. "There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments." (117) This idea has interesting comparisons to other ideas that I taken from Billy through the book. In some ways agree with how the Tralfamadorians look at war. War and fighting is in our nature as people. Total world peace is impossible because there will always be people that don't agree with one another. That is one of the great things about humans. And so, wars are inevitable. They are always going to happen through time. They are dark moments for us but very important all the same. The world is the way it is today because of wars. The Tralfamadorians understand this and that they can do nothing to stop wars. They can see their whole future ahead of them but they know that it is pointless to try and change it because it just is. So they focus on what they can control which is what they spend they time viewing. They look at the peace between the wars and forget the wars ever happened. I think this is sort of what Kurt Vonnegut or Billy is trying do do with the flashbacks and forwards in his storyline. When he is in the hard times of the POW camps he escapes them in his memory by sifting and focusing on his happy memories. It is his way of ignoring the war the way the Tralfamadorians do.