Slaughterhouse- five 3

"Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." pg 23

And so the book begins. Being unstuck in time is a difficult concept so here I am explaining it in the larger context of the book. Slaughterhouse-five as a whole is a flashback of when Billy is writing his book about Dresden. The book about Dresden is a flashback of Billy's war experience. During the war Billy travels backwards and forwards in time. In other words, it's a flashback of a flashback of Billy flashing back and seeing ahead. I know, it's enough to make me go crazy too and I'm just typing it out. Billy is a Psychology phenomenon. Just like our multiple choice passage today, time doesn't exist to Billy. So to him, he's not really going backward and forward in time. Just as his alien friends take in whole novels all at once instead of reading page by page, Billy's life is more of a mash up rather than a chronological timeline. Or so he claims. The flashbacks are understandable, but the seeing forward in time is making me a skeptic. The guy is clearly crazy. How do we know he's not just making it up?