So it goes
Photos from Tony Wilson's grave in Manchester's Southern Cemetery.
The phrase "So it goes" (bizarrely, drawn in marker pen on clear plastic) was the title of Tony Wilson's 70's music show on Granada TV. Rather aptly in this context, the show was named after a phrase from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five:
"The novel uses certain phrases repetitively, such as 'so it goes'—which, used whenever death or dying is mentioned (be it that of a man, an animal, or the bubbles in champagne), serves to downplay mortality, making it routine and even humorous."
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So it goes
Photos from Tony Wilson's grave in Manchester's Southern Cemetery.
The phrase "So it goes" (bizarrely, drawn in marker pen on clear plastic) was the title of Tony Wilson's 70's music show on Granada TV. Rather aptly in this context, the show was named after a phrase from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five:
"The novel uses certain phrases repetitively, such as 'so it goes'—which, used whenever death or dying is mentioned (be it that of a man, an animal, or the bubbles in champagne), serves to downplay mortality, making it routine and even humorous."
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