Let it Be

"Remember, you must always behave as you do at a banquet. Something is passed around and comes to you: reach out your hand politely and take some. It goes by: do not hold it back. It has not arrived yet: do not stretch your desire out towards it, but wait until it comes to you." (Epictetus' Handbook #15)
This is telling us that we should let things be and pass and not necessarily try to intervene with it too much. Although this doesn't present a direct connection to Slaughterhouse Five, it did make me think about it. The Tralfamadorian view on life represents one that you cannot even live, much less intervene. These are kind of steps in the ladder of living I guess.
The very bottom is the 4th dimension which doesn't allow life because everything is already written. The top would be a full-led life where you intervene with everything and live every moment to the fullest. Epictetus' point of view is near the top but in the middle of these two.