I just finished reading this book and I enjoyed it very much. In the end of the book, the narrator gives a math problem and the anwser to the problem tells how many people the narrator slept with and how many people he had killed during the war. The number I got was 82. The narrator states the number has a double significance, but I cant figure out what it is for the life of me. So dopers, do I have the right number, and what is the double significance?
I’ve been looking for a good book to re-read, and this is one. I’ll read it again and let you know what I can figure out.
It’s been a while since I read the book, but I think the significance is that it evens out- yin/yang y’know.
Oh, yeah, I didn’t read the OP carefully enough. The “double significance” of the number is that it represents both the number of people he’s slept with and the number of people he killed. Right?
As long as we’re going back and re-reading old Vonnegut, I recently revisited and re-enjoyed Player Piano. I had no idea when I read it the first time that it was his first book. No Kilgore Trout yet, but Ilium NY is prominently represented…