The car the Vonnegut narrator steps out of at the close of Breakfast of
Champions--the Plymouth Duster--he chose it for its logo: a dust devil.
This is an allusion to the book of Job's conclusion where the
Judeo-Christian deity speaks to Job from a whirlwind. Clever eh?
Dr C.J. Grindley
Just had to tell the world.
PS Elgin Washington, nightingales, and Bermuda Erns--all poems by Keats.
PPS Trout = (everything that he normally is) + Coleridge's ancient mariner,
complete with albatross (cf the moment of the ancient mariner's redemption +
Dostoevski's "it's all an ocean" Brothers Karamazov book 6, chapter 2.)
PPPS Sacred Miracle Cave = Kublai Khan's "measureless" caves.
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