An obscure science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout writes novels full of good ideas and bad writing, and is in some sense a caricature of Kurt Vonnegut, whose early writings were exercises in science fiction. Trout’s novels, with their reference to aliens, Jesus and the cross, and alternate futures, make an impression on Eliot Rosewater and Billy Pilgrim, and many of their details become details of Billy’s life and Vonnegut’s narrative.
Kilgore Trout Quotes in Slaughterhouse-Five
The Slaughterhouse-Five quotes below are all either spoken by Kilgore Trout or refer to Kilgore Trout. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds . . . It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. So it goes.
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Kilgore Trout Quotes in Slaughterhouse-Five
The Slaughterhouse-Five quotes below are all either spoken by Kilgore Trout or refer to Kilgore Trout. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 8
Quotes
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds . . . It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. So it goes.
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