"Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five.
Billy Pilgrim, full name William Pilgrim, is the fictional protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Billy is an optometrist trapped in a loveless marriage and residing in 'Ilium', a fictional duplicate of the city of Schenectady, New York where Vonnegut worked as a publicist for the General Electric company, and where several of his other novels are set. Slaughterhouse-Five describes Billy Pilgrim's random travels through time and space as a result of his abduction by the '"four-dimensional"' aliens known as the Tralfamadorians.