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I was thinking the same thing. War never really leaves you. When he's having dinner at his table and then gets transported back in time to the POW train, it's like that. It's always present, and the past is at least as important as the present and future...it's just a chaotic thing. PTSD fractures your thought process. I think it's Vonnegut's way of unpacking his own experiences, his own burdens.
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Nov 27, 2018 08:06PM
I was thinking the same thing. War never really leaves you. When he's having dinner at his table and then gets transported back in time to the POW train, it's like that. It's always present, and the past is at least as important as the present and future...it's just a chaotic thing. PTSD fractures your thought process. I think it's Vonnegut's way of unpacking his own experiences, his own burdens.
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