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Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 9, Section 13

By Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 9, Section 13

Rumfoord decides Billy has echolalia, a mental illness that makes people repeat what they hear others around them saying.
Rumfoord is wrong, but he wants Billy to have this illness because he finds him inconvenient.