"Under morphine, Billy had a dream of giraffes in a garden. The giraffes were following gravel paths, were pausing to munch sugar pears from treetops. Billy was a giraffe too. He ate a pear.... The giraffes accepted Billy as one og thier own, as harmless creature as preposterously specialized as themselves. Two approached him from the side, and leaned against him. They had long muscular upper lips which they could shape like the bells of bugles. They kissed him with these. They were femaile giraffes-cream and lemon yellow. They had horns like doorknobs. The knobs were convered with velvet." page 126
one of the resons i love this quote is that its really descriptive. You can see Billy as a giraffe on a path with the pear trees surrounding him every where; and the other giraffes kissing him. I really think taht Kurt Vonnegut did a great job of describing how amazing the morhpine trip was for him, and when he woke up from his tip, he was in the veterans hospital with the blanket over his head.
I have heard people that have been heavily dosed on pain killers, and they say it feels like you are in another world, and thats exactly what happened to Billy Pilgram
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