... it a truly timeless piece of reportage. It is also similar to Breakfast of Champions tone and Closing Time's surrealism near the book's end, as Thompson's book is littered with fantastical set-pieces - this infusion of fiction and non-fiction helped convey the drug-addled mindset of its author. However, unlike Vonnegut and Heller's existential critique, Thompson's Stanislavskian reportage (that is, a ... country. Vonnegut shows us chaos in Breakfast of Champions through the stories of the main character, the absurdly-named writer of the absurd, Kilgore Trout. We are never actively shown...

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... of his captors about time, and he says that the Trafalmadorians sound like they do not believe in free will. The alien replies that in all of the inhabited planets of the galaxy, Earth is the only one whose people believe in the concept of free will. MY COMMENTS This chapter introduces two characters who will add to the story at a later date. One is a strong, fatherly figure ... . The other is a weasely, scrawny car thief. Like I said earlier, this ... about how angry they are at the way the Americans have treated the horses. The horses' hooves are shattered, their mouths are bleeding f...

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