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Dwayne walked by: "Fabulously well-to-do." And here's how much of the planet Kilgore Trout owned in those days: doodley-squat. And Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover met in Midland City, which was Dwayne's home town, during an Arts Festival there in autumn of 1972. As has already been said: Dwayne was a Pontiac dealer who was going insane. Dwayne's incipient insanity was mainly a matter of chemicals, of course. Dwayne Hoover's body was manufacturing certain chemicals which unbalanced his mind. But Dwayne, like all novice lunatics, needed some bad ideas, too, so that his craziness could have shape and direction. Bad chemicals and bad ideas were the Yin and Yang of madness. Yin and Yang were Chinese symbols of harmony. They looked like this: The bad ideas were delivered to Dwayne by Kilgore Trout. Trout considered himself not only harmless but invisible. The world had paid so little attention to him that he supposed he was dead. He hoped he was dead. But he learned from his encounter with Dwayne that he was alive enough to give a fellow human being ideas which would turn him into a monster. Here was the core of the bad ideas which Trout gave to Dwayne: Everybody on Earth was a robot, wi

Who reads Breakfast of Champions : A Novel?

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385334204

Category

humor

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humor

Rating

4.3 / 5 (6,072 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14