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Study Guide

Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 1, Section 20

By Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 1, Section 20

He quotes from two books that he brought with him, with a particularly awesome reference to Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French author and vet of WWI, who screams on the page to a crowd to stop moving "so that they won't disappear anymore!" (1.20.3).