That's an interesting quote given that in Slaughterhouse-Five, his most famous novel, he conspicuously avoids doing this. The first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Fi

That's an interesting quote given that in Slaughterhouse-Five, his most famous novel, he conspicuously avoids doing this. The first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five is a meta-chapter about the writing of the novel itself, and only in chapter two does the story proper actually begin. I think there's something effective about the way the book begins, and continually references other parts of itself throughout the entirety of the story; but it's definitely not throwing away the first chapter; or alternatively if there was a "first chapter" to Slaughterhouse-Five that Vonnegut threw away, I wonder what possibly could have been there.