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Study Guide

Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 8, Section 23

By Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 8, Section 23

The four guards look around with their mouths open in shock. They remind Billy of a silent film of a barbershop quartet.
It is as though they are singing "That Old Gang of Mine": "So long forever... old fellows and pals" (8.23.2).