In Chapter Five of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy has a very strange morphine dream in which he sees a garden with giraffes wandering around on gravel paths in it. In this dream, Billy is also a giraffe, and he is accepted by the other giraffes as one of their kind. Two of the female giraffes approach Billy and then kiss him on the lips.
This dream seems to play off of the theme of alienation that is present within the novel. Due to his time-traveling tendencies, Billy is constantly out of sync with the rest of the world and is, thus, a bit of an outcast. However, in this dream, Billy is able to find a group of his own, albeit one consisting of very strange, odd-looking creatures! He may never be accepted by normal society, but in his dream he finds there is a "tribe" for him out there somewhere.
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