These British POWs are officers, some of the first Brits taken prisoner in the war. The Americans give their names and serial numbers so that they can be reported to the Red Cross, and then they are marched to sheds occupied by middle-aged British POWs. His coat is preposterously small, and on his already awkward body it looks ridiculous. The Germans think Billy is one of the funniest creatures they've seen in all of the war. But Billy sees a light nearby: the radium dial of his father's watch.īilly jumps back to the war. The ranger turns the lights off, so that the tourists can experience total darkness. He jumps forward in time just ten days, to later in the same vacation.
His mother touches him and he wets his pants. Billy jumps in time to a visit to the Grand Canyon taken when he was twelve years old. The books have no cause or effect or chronology their beauty is in the arrangement of events meant to be read simultaneously. Because they have a different concept of time, Tralfamadorians have novels arranged by juxtaposition of marvelous moments. The only human novel is Valley of the Dolls, and when Billy asks for a Tralfamadorian novel, he learns that the aliens' novels are slim, sleek volumes. En route to Tralfamadore, Billy asks for something to read.
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