According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001 It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991 making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu & a total loss of free will
- not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest & most hollow decades With his trademark wicked wit Vonnegut addresses memory suicide the Great Depression the loss of American eloquence & the obsolescent thrill of reading books