"This was when Billy first came unstuck in time. His attention began to swing grandly through the full arc of his life, passing into death, which was violet light. There wasn't anybody else, or any thing. There was just violet light -- and a hum." -Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Does anyone who has read the entire story care to elaborate? Plagarism or inspiration?

I think this actually may be a coincidence. Or not. That book is not exactly about time-travel per se, but like "Lost" there's some psuedo-science/science-fiction going on there. The real "point" of SH5 is examining the horrors of war and of what human being are capable of doing.

Neither. The LOST braintrust pulls ideas from all over the place(King, Vonnegut, Hawkings, etc.), but they don't do it without taking said idea in a different direction. Desmond is affecting the world around him when/after he flashes, while Billy Pilgrim didn't change a thing or even try to, at least not until the end of his life when he started to reveal his state to the world around him. The way that Desomd is unstuck in time is fundamentally different than Billy's because of this. Billy was able to view all of time at different times, whereas Des can alter the makeup of "time" by changing events one by one.

Thanks for this though, I had never put two and two together with the purple sky, humming, and Des' new found ability.

Is Billy Pilgrim in a chronosynclastc infundibulum? Or was that someone else in Sirens of Titan?

Is Billy Pilgrim in a chronosynclastc infundibulum? Or was that someone else in Sirens of Titan?

Buh? Guh? And now I'm off to wikipedia, thank you very much.