The beginning of chapter 31 is interesting: "How people used to talk and talk back then! Everybody was going, "Blah-blah-blah," all day long. Some of them would even do it in their sleep." [173]
I took it in a way that Vonnegut is talking about politicians. We listen to these people of power and we have no idea of what their saying. They go on and on and when it comes down to it, they're not saying much that gets to the point or intrigues us. Most of their long speeches end up to be one simple message: "I don't really know". I also remember Ms. Clapp always saying that back then, people were so genuine when they spoke. Now most of the time when people speak to each other, they are telling a lie or being sarcastic. There is nothing to the point in our own "speeches".
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