"Overhead he heard the cry of what might have been, a melodious owl, but it wasn't a melodious owl, It was a flying saucer from Tralfamadore, navigating in both space and time, therefore seeming to Billy Pilgrim to have come from nowhere at once." p.75
I'm beginning to question whether Billy is simply insane or this is supposed to be actually happening. I know a mental hospital was referenced somewhere in the text which led me to question this. However, it seems to be what is actually supposed to be happening though. This excerpt is yet another anecdote shared within the frame story. Billy's life jumps from places in time at random. Thus, the book also follows this pattern, giving the reader various insights to his life through the frequent and wide-ranging anecdotes. I'm actually enjoying all these frequent shifts in settings and events. The book has very unique structure in regards to the way it changes from time periods in Billy's life, yet is somehow actually the present. I don't understand it, but I'm also not crazy like Billy seems to be.
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