31: Slaughterhouse-Five - Rob Walker
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English - September 01, 2021 07:00 - 14 minutes - 13.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBooks Arts History literature classic literature books reading jane austen classic lit victorian lit critical reading reviews comedy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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My guest, Rob Walker (@timidwerewolf) gets into a discussion of hope and beauty while discussing the PTSD manifesto from Kurt Vonnegut.
CW: Fat-shaming, torture, murder, war, PTSD
SUMMARY
Billy Pilgrim is an optometrist from Ilium, New York who is living with the memories of his time as a POW from World War II. This manifests as a consciousness that has become "unstuck in time," so that his brain will travel to all future and past memories at random.
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