Subject: Re: list
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 11:50:52 EST
> Yes, the pile of frozen clothing from which Billy Pilgrim's
> ridiculous coat is extracted is from Nazi victims in the camps. The
> entire portion of the book dealing with Pilgrim's flashbacks to
> Germany are filled with the sense of menace about the Nazis and the
> camps and the forced labor done by P.O.W.s.
>
> --tim o'connor
Slaughter House Five is based on V's real experience. He was present
in the bombing of Dresdin (an event in the book). I visted Dresdin and
looked up Schlokthaus Fuenf. Of all the people I asked about its location
no one knew of the book. No one had heard of V. Schlokthaus Fuenf is
still there, unfortunately it is behind a gate, and the guard wasn't
really pleased about my interest in the place.
Personally, my favorite line by V is either in SH5 or Hocus Pocus. The
main character is in a hospital talking to this other guy who states that
if the Bible were to vanish from the planet, Dostovyevski's Brother's
Karamazof would be the only book that could replace it. I feel the same
damn way.
-j
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