The Sirens of Titan

social commentator and a companion to Billy Pilgrim. Other crossover characters are Eliot Rosewater from God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater, Howard W. Campbell from Mother Night and Bertram Copeland Rumfoord, relative of Winston Niles Rumfoord from The Sirens of Titan (1959). Mr. Rosewater says that Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Siblings Karamazov contains ‘everything there was to think about existence’. The way that Billy peruses The Valley of the Dolls (1966) and takes an interest in a radio…

Achilles Son of King Peleus and Thetis Fated to die in Troy Champion of the Greeks He refused to fight in the Trojan War at first He had incredibly strong armor He fought for Helen as well as for half of Troy’s treasurers His friend, Patroclus, went to war and died fighting Hector He went to war to avenge his beloved friend that he had lost Killed Hector and tortured him even after death until he was satisfied with vengeance Killed Memnon in combat, it was his last battle He was supposed to be…

Vonnegut 's first works were not an immediate success—“His novels, Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan (1959), languished in pulp obscurity” (Summer). Whether as a result of a mere lack of luck, inconsistent performance, or not catering to the interests of his time, Vonnegut struggled, supporting himself mainly selling short stories to periodicals…