Breakfast of Champions Study Gvide
HUMAN BEINGS
| Dwayne Hoover |
| Kilgore Trout |
| Harry LeSabre |
| Francine Pefko |
| Milo Maritimo |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
LIMINAL EXPERIENCES
| Trout enters the porn theater, crosses George Washington Bridge |
| Trout crosses polluted Sugar Creek to get to the Holiday Inn |
| Dwayne enters the Holiday Inn lobby |
| Trout enters the hospital basement |
| Vonnegut somersaults through the void |
SHOUT-OUTS
| Dwayne/Trout/Vonnegut = Gilgamesh/Enkidu/Utnapishtim |
| Francine Pefko = Shamhat/Sibyl/Dido |
| Assholes/body measurements/wide open beavers = Aristophanes |
| Trout's stupid short stories = Golden Ass |
| Wayne Hoobler watches "animals in the zoo" from the kitchen |
COSMIC SIGNIFICANCE
| Human beings as machines |
| American metropolis as symbolic hell |
| Kilgore Trout = Ethical Leadership = Nobel Prize = Hope? |
| Mooning over mortality |
| Now It Can Be Told = looking for answers |
| Vonnegut tries to deal with turning fifty |
| Make me young, make me young, make me young |