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 |