The "Writing Tick"

"Poor old Edgar Derby," "Billy Pilgrim." Doesn't that seem familiar? Well, it should. Kurt Vonnegut says it all the time, throughout all the book. But why? Why does he do that? It's like a writing tick: you can't stop saying the same things over and over again. Whenever he mentions Edgar Derby, he must say "poor old Edgar Derby." Whenever he talks about Billy he can't say "Billy" or "Pilgrim" or "old Pilgs," he must say "Billy Pilgrim."

I can't blame him too much for that, I think I have that writing tick too. But the thing that I can't stand is that maybe it's his weird way of telling us something and I can't figure out what that something is.

But, lets not forget that old Vonnegut was at wart too, with old Pilgs, and we take that for granted. (Well at least I do). Just because he is writing the book I think he was not at war (or maybe it was because he writes in third person). Suddenly a sentence like "That was I." (pg. 148) is what reminds me that Kurt Vonnegut, was there. I've talked about how Billy is traumatized because of war in my other entries, but I've never talked about Vonnegut. What if he also has a trauma and cant stop repeating THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN?

But enough of the writing tick. Lets talk about Paul Lazzaro. Who I think is kinda funny. The only thing that I don't get about him is that stuff he says about killing people...is he serious? Well, I don't know if he is (people in desperation can say many things, I mean he did break his arm) but I find it humorous: he goes pointing at every one (with his good arm) and say's like "I will kill you because...you were in my way when I was pointing to another person to kill them!" There's always one of those at war. Fo' sho.