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Pizza the Hut wrote:
PeopleMyAge wrote:
Pizza the Hut wrote:
Could also be a Galapagos or Cat's Cradle reference.
he pretty much mentioned illium in all of his books, didn't he?
It was a common setting, yes.
okay. i've read night, sl5, cats cradle, god bless you dr kevorkian, breakfast of champions, and hocus pocus and i was pretty sure they had all mentioned illium in one way or another
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Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
The name most likely refers to Troy, New York ("Ilium" was the name the Romans gave to ancient Troy). In all other respects, Ilium very closely resembles Schenectady, New York, with the fictional Iroquois river standing in for the real Mohawk River, which flows west-east through Schenectady. The Ilium Works is in roughly the same geographic location as the General Electric plant in Schenectady, where Vonnegut worked as a public relations writer. Still, the city of Ilium is quite clearly distinct from Schenectady, as characters in Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five refer to Schenectady as a separate place.
Cohoes, longtime residence of Vonnegut's character Kilgore Trout, is in the vicinity of Ilium and the towns that inspired it.
In Vonnegut's Galápagos, the character of Mary Hepburn was a High School teacher in Ilium, and in Cat's Cradle, it is the former home of Dr. Felix Hoenikker - one of the fathers of the atomic bomb - and, thus, the town that Jonah visits to interview Dr. Asa Breed, Hoenikker's former supervisor.
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hey, speaking of fictional towns in NY, did you know that in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" the town of Bedford Falls is loosely based on Glens Falls, NY?
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yup. my dad likes to mention a lot of useless facts like that as he drove us to the ends of the earth. Like, we went to the place where they filmed the train part of Planes Trains and Automobiles. Sidenote: In that scene, one of the extras is wearing a letter jacket from my High School.
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