"There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time" (Chapter 5, Page 207-208 ebook).

Billy is attempting to read the Tralfamadorian's novels and finds that he cannot understand nor comprehend exactly what they are trying to convey. Not really understanding just how to relate this form of literature to the norm on Earth, Billy asks if they are like telegrams, to which he is told that they are alike in that they are "brief, urgent message[s] - describing a situation, a scene." This description is almost exactly parallel with Billy's life as a time traveller and the entire structure of Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut replicates this sense of telegraphic communication by inserting lines of three star-dots, aligning his attempt to tell his story about Dresden with Billy's narrative. Though out of order, like both of these stories, all of the elements come together to create one beautiful and understanding piece of literature or art. Vonnegut seems to use Billy as a way to convey that his story cannot be complete without taking in all of the information as a whole. Just like the Tralfamadorian's literature, it's more about the big picture, like memories, all coming together at once to show a story, yet still giving important and moving details. This description makes it easier to understand the novel as a whole, rather than focusing on the snippets of information that we receive as readers. Memories are hard to decipher, and Vonnegut's attempt to organize them is interesting and entertaining.

Does Vonnegut negate the sole purpose of time and learning from past experiences to improve the future? If past, present and future are all irrelevant, does our existence become frivolous?