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Greetings lads
I’ve just finished Slaughterhouse Five for the first time, and I can’t quite put my finger on why I loved it.
My question is: all of the time travel/alien stuff was in his head, right? Throughout the book, things attributed to other points in the book happen in real life. For example, the pornographic photo of the horse and woman appearing in the book store in New York City as well as his war companion.
There were other examples of this: the serenity poem being a poster on the wall of his dental office as well as being inscribed on his Tramafladorian wife’s locket.
Anyway, this leads me to believe that perhaps the alien and time travel stuff was a figment of his imagination or a coping mechanism to the brutalities of the war. Yet im unsure, and the book has left me with plenty of questions.