Slaughter House Five: Chapter 2

The story really begins in Chapter 2. The writing is much more like a story, and it makes the 1st chapter seem as though it was a weird kind of introduction to the entire novel. For that reason, I'll try to always keep in mind what it said as I read the rest of the book.
I really really like the whole idea behind his coming unstuck in time. The whole Tralfamadorian view on time is awesome to think about. I had always wondered about different worlds and dimensions and how they would see time. This point of view is very interesting when thinking about those things. It makes death not an obstacle, and it takes away the depression that comes when you think a moment only lasts that exact moment.
I've always wondered if there are a million copies of one's self. This idea seems to indicate that there is one you for every moment you experience throughout life, regardless of past, present, or future.
I don't think that Billy really thinks he has been captured by aliens and taken to Tralfamadore. Instead, I think it is a huge personification of an epiphany he had at sometime in his life, which makes him realize what he tells he realized in Tralfamadore. His vision of that planet and how its inhabitants live is really the way he wants the world to function; further incrementing his frustration with life.