[WT Sharpe]

Certain themes were repeated in a way that led me to suppose their repetition was the product of Billy's fantasizing. One was Weary's pornographic picture of a woman and a Shetland pony that showed up later in a bookstore that incidentally had books by Kilgore Trout. Another was the barber/barbershop motif. Billy's father was a barber. On the plane that crashed, there was a barbershop quartet. After the Dresden bombing the dazed guards "looked like a silent film of a barbershop quartet". Then there was the close resemblance between Billy Pilgrim's Tralfamadorian experiences and the writings of Kilgore Trout. Such repetitions and coincidences convince me that Billy Pilgrim no more left Dresden than did his real life counterpart.