Reflections on Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2

So I suppose this is my obligatory late night entry. I mean, we've all gotta have at least one of them.

And, considering that it is 3:43 AM, you're in luck, as I am having trouble forming cohesive words and sentences, so this blog won't be too long.

I just finished all of my Annotated Bibliographies. I probably did them wrong, as my responses weren't rhetorical enough and I couldn't find many central claims, but I finished them, so I guess that's what really counts.

In doing them, I came to realize how many little connections there are in Slaughterhouse-Five. The fictional author Kilgore Trout that Billy Pilgrim is obsessed with is mentioned throughout the book and is finally introduced as a real character much later on. Similarly, various other characters and events are mentioned prominently when they are important and are mere side notes when they aren't important to the current scene. The most interesting of these, in my opinion, was a radio talk show that Billy mentions going on to talk about Tralfamadore at the beginning of the book. Having read this, I assumed he went to a tabloid station or some science fiction group. However, at the end of the book, it is revealed that he pretended to be an author so he could enter a literary critic discussion. The book is full of little connections like this that, while less deep or thought-provoking than the movies Babel or Memento, make it definately worth a second readthrough (which I will not be sparing the time for, unfortunately).