Vonnegut writes his novel, as a series of events reported; his purpose, ostensibly, is to show us how one event ... pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell. "The boss G-man concluded wrongly ...

Few home-made timepieces though have come as near to wristwatch Nirvana as the cuckoo clock wristwatch from [Kiyotaka Akasaka], which we would venture to name as having won wristwatches.