"They looked like a silent film of a barbershop quarter." p. 178
While reading through this novel, I started to notice a pattern. Quite often, Billy's time traveling is often triggered by a reoccurring image. An image such as this one, the barber shop quartet, sickens Billy. He doesn't realize why the barber shop quartet at his 18th wedding anniversary causes him to become nauseous. This time travel is more of a flashback, but he is reminded of the awful bombing at Dresden and realizes why it makes him sick. This is also another theme found in the novel. Billy hardly reveals any of this war stories to any of his family or friends and this repression leads people to think of him as crazy and may cause his real or imaginative time travelings.
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