This character makes several in-text appearances punctuated by the lines “That was I. That was me,” including one in a latrine where they excrete everything including their brains. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character who likens themselves to Lot’s wife while writing a novel in which “there won’t be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne.”
ANSWER: Kurt Vonnegut [or Kurt Vonnegut; prompt on the narrator of Slaughterhouse-Five or the author of Slaughterhouse-Five]
[10e] Vonnegut wrote a self-insert prologue chapter into Slaughterhouse-Five, which primarily follows this character who has “come unstuck in time.”
ANSWER: Billy Pilgrim [or Billy Pilgrim]
[10m] Vonnegut calls himself Philboyd Studge in the preface to this other novel he narrates. In this novel set in Midland City, the protagonist bites off Kilgore Trout’s finger after reading Trout’s book Now It Can Be Told.
ANSWER: Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday
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