and also, that book starts with the line "billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time." i wonder when you talk about the crazy with the capital c does it feel like you become unstuck in time drifting back and forth between the two places? >> yes, i'm a huge fan. and i loathe to admit that. the comparison makes me uncomfortable. there's something about unworthy to tie a sandal strap but yeah, i definitely read "slaughter house five" before i wrote the book. i didn't intentionally model anything there. but the sentiment, absolutely. i guess i look on box a little bit differently than i used to. i see a lot of war stories where i didn't see war stories before. and maybe, you know, there's a lot of examples, but two -- but you had to go to fiction based upon his all of bombing of dress din, of course, to be able to write that. lot of other writers who experience something too. they go to fiction too. they go farther out. two of the best examples are actually [inaudible] which maybe are not names you were exec. they served in the tremplegs in world war i. i think they both fo

i'm wondering if you have ever read that and also that book starts with the line billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time and i'm wondering when you talk about the crazy with the c. doesn't ever feel like you have become -- become unstuck in time drifting back and forth between the two places? >> yes, i am a huge vonnegut fan and i am loath to admit that the cause it makes me uncomfortable. there something about -- going on there but i definitely read it before i wrote the book. i didn't intentionally model it there but the sentiment, absolutely. i guess i look on books a little bit differently than i used to. i see a lot of war stories where he didn't see war stories before. there are a lot of examples but he had to go to based upon the awful bombing of dresden. lots of other writers who experienced something terrible, they go even further out and to two of the best examples in modern popular culture are actually c.s. lewis and j.r.r. tolkien. maybe they are not what you expect but they both served in the trenches in world war i. i think they both fought and i'm going to get, i might get