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* [[Food Porn]]: One of Trout's stories is about a planet where food was scarce, so the inhabitants' pornography is people eating food slowly and happily. |
* [[Food Porn]]: One of Trout's stories is about a planet where food was scarce, so the inhabitants' pornography is people eating food slowly and happily. |
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* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Vonnegut states right at the beginning that Dwayne Hoover will snap and seriously injure several people. |
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Vonnegut states right at the beginning that Dwayne Hoover will snap and seriously injure several people. |
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* [[Fourth Wall Shut-in Story]]: The character Kilgore Trout is supposed to be a stand-in for Vonnegut, and toward the end of the story, Trout has conversations with Vonnegut (who is the third-person omniscient narrator). The content of these conversations is Trout (fictional) demanding changes to his world from Vonnegut (real), but the underlying subtext is of Vonnegut (real), in futility, demanding impossible changes to his own life. |
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* [[Freak-Out]]: Finally happens to Dwayne Hoover after reading the story by Kilgore Trout, which tells him that all other people are just mindless machines created as part of an experiment by God to see how he will react to them. |
* [[Freak-Out]]: Finally happens to Dwayne Hoover after reading the story by Kilgore Trout, which tells him that all other people are just mindless machines created as part of an experiment by God to see how he will react to them. |
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* [[Gag Penis]]: Vonnegut claims that his penis is three inches long and five inches in diameter. |
* [[Gag Penis]]: Vonnegut claims that his penis is three inches long and five inches in diameter. |
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