Billy Pilgrim's Three Musketeers
Twenty-five years after Billy’s experience in Dresden, he boards an airplane, knowing it is going to crash, to a convention in Montreal. Billy’s wife’s father was on board with him. The narrator explains that Tralfamadorians claim that every creature is a machine. Outside of the plane, his wife, Valencia waves goodbye to Billy while eating a chocolate bar. Also on board, is a barbershop quartet called the “Four-eyed Bastards.” They sing humorous songs about the Polish. Billy is then reminded about the public hanging he had seen in Dresden, in which a Polish man was hung. Knowing that the plane is about to crash, Billy drifts into sleep and awakens in 1944. Roland Weary is shaking him, but Billy Pilgrim tells the “Three Musketeers” to go on without him. As the
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Austrian ski instructors arrive on the scene, and Billy whispers: “Schlachthof-fünf,” which was the address of the prison he stayed in in Dresden. As Billy is being brought down Sugarbush Mountain on a toboggan, he looks at all of the skiers. Then, a famous neurosurgeon operates on him for three hours, but this leaves Billy unconscious for two days, allowing him to dream and time-travel. He first travels to the first evening in the slaughterhouse. Billy, Edgar, and their German guard, Werner Gluck, are attempting to navigate to the kitchen when they walk into a room naked girls, the first naked girls that Billy or Werner have ever seen. The three men finally make it to their destination and the only person still there was the cook. She looks at the fools and states that “All the real soldiers are dead.” Next, he travels to a syrup factory that him and the other Americans had to work at. The syrup was enriched with vitamins and minerals, intended for pregnant women. All of the workers secretly eat the syrup themselves, and hide spoons under all of the machinery. Billy tries the syrup for the first time on his second day of
Austrian ski instructors arrive on the scene, and Billy whispers: “Schlachthof-fünf,” which was the address of the prison he stayed in in Dresden. As Billy is being brought down Sugarbush Mountain on a toboggan, he looks at all of the skiers. Then, a famous neurosurgeon operates on him for three hours, but this leaves Billy unconscious for two days, allowing him to dream and time-travel. He first travels to the first evening in the slaughterhouse. Billy, Edgar, and their German guard, Werner Gluck, are attempting to navigate to the kitchen when they walk into a room naked girls, the first naked girls that Billy or Werner have ever seen. The three men finally make it to their destination and the only person still there was the cook. She looks at the fools and states that “All the real soldiers are dead.” Next, he travels to a syrup factory that him and the other Americans had to work at. The syrup was enriched with vitamins and minerals, intended for pregnant women. All of the workers secretly eat the syrup themselves, and hide spoons under all of the machinery. Billy tries the syrup for the first time on his second day of