on Wednesday morning with a great deal of trepidation. I was early but they saw me immediately, so I didn't even have much time of sitting in the waiting room fretting.

The dentist numbed my gum with some gell (which I hate because it dissolves and runs around my mouth and numbs my tongue as well). He then attacked me at length with the traditional weapon of all dentists: the needle. The gell had only partly done its job, as usual, but I managed not to squirm too much.

Once the area was properly numbed, and that numbness tested, the dentist put his plier-like tools into my mouth and tried to get a grip on my tooth. There were some scrapping sounds but it seemed he wasn't having much success.Timequake One). Taking parts of Timequake One and combining it with personal thoughts and anecdotes produced the finished product, so-called Timequake Two. Many of the anecdotes deal with Vonnegut's family, the death of loved ones, and people's last words.

The plot, while centered on Trout, is also a sort of ramble in which Vonnegut relays tangents to the plot and comes back dozens of pages later: the timequake has thrust citizens of the year 2001 back in time to 1991 to repeat every action they undertook during that time.

Most of the small stories in the book expound on the depression and sadness wrought by watching oneself make bad choices: people watch their parents die again, drive drunk or cause accidents that severely injure others. At the end of the