The Mental Mascaraed (SHV Chp 5)

In the following chapter, Vonnegut gives us an alluring view of the minds of the protagonists. The are unvealed from the interior, out. "It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them."(SHV pg 104). This is the reflection of a state of mind incomprehensible to the typical character in the novel. For example the unexplicable weeping of Billy in the evenings. It is over the usual thought and stereotype of the characters. It's the disease that makes the novel interesting, the mind eating interest that gathers its thought, its nucleus in the rareness, and eccentricity of all setting and time. This is the fourth dimension, the disease that is not a disease, but an advance in evolution, to a different brain and different eyes. 

A human "revelation" is also described, as Vonnegut puts it in context. We fight here on earth, on our third dimension to strive in war or in peace. We venture into believing the universe's fait is put in our hands. But oh, no. Vonnegut has the decency to give other forms of life (if existing) the benefit of actaully being better than us. So referring to Vonnegut's clever scenario, he mentions: "How- how does the Universe end? said Billy. "We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying saucers. A Trafalmadorian test pilot presses a started button, and the whole Universe disappears." (SHV pg 117). It is as simple as that. Not from wars, or a disaster, or hunger, or disease. Just a button. A simple button, and Boom. The end.