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Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 5, Section 54
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Chapter 5, Section 54
- Billy goes to sleep with Valencia and travels back in time to 1944, to his trip from South Carolina to his father's funeral in upstate New York.
- He travels by train. When he reaches Ilium, New York, the porter wakes him from a deep sleep.
- The porter tells Billy he had a huge erection while he was sleeping.
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