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Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 9, Section 32

By Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 9, Section 32

Billy fails to make it onto TV in New York, but he does get on a radio talk show.
He claims he is from the Ilium Gazette. The people at the radio show think he is a literary critic there to talk about the state of the novel.
Billy remembers Wild Bob, the American colonel who died in front of Billy on the train to the POW compound in Germany.