about; and that it is not something that he can write about in a traditional story (Gianonne 102). It is a cruelty that defies his attempts at rationalization. Even the simple act of outlining the events of the story proves impossible in the normal sense (Vonnegut 5). Instead Vonnegut reduces the lives, deaths, and relationships of dozens of people to colored lines on the back of a strip of wallpaper (Sm
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