Montana Wildhack Quotes

Montana Wildhack is screaming. All of us are. Twelve years later, I’m lying beside my dog in an otherwise empty house. She dreams and I cry. Thousands are dying all over again. So it goes.

Like Montana Wildhack, Scott dances for a living. But it's called ballet and wardrobe is involved, so somewhow it's more acceptable.

For twenty years, he had been strangely confounded about the book, and intellectualizing its problems hadn’t helped. At base, the antagonist was death, and life forces would have to sing a stronger, more convincing counterpoint in the novel. But now, because he was experiencing sex—the psyche’s match for death—in ways that inspired him, he saw how to give the novel balance. He would introduce a fantasy lover with the titillating name Montana Wildhack, Loree’s double, to rescue Slaughterhouse-Five’s protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, from the terror of existing in an empty, meaningless universe. * * * AS