Analysis of Slaughterhouse five quote?

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Why would this following quote be important in Slaughterhouse Five?
"It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be quiet after a massacre, and it always is except for the birds."
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Well, the comment about the birds is very important; it's one of the themes of the book: "So it goes," and "Po-tweet."

The whole novel is a madman's account of how he went insane. That's why it's a jumbled mess of going backward and forward in time and to other planets--because the massacre at Dresden so horrified the narrator that he lost his grip on sanity. Through the novel, Vonnegut is trying to portray the senslesness and destruction of the Dresden massacre.

In fact, I'd say that that quotation could be taken as describing the book--short, jumbled, and jangled, because there's nothing intelligent to be said about Dresden. Instead, you walk away with the sound of the birds: "Po-tweet."
 
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