If you have yet to read Kurt Vonnegut's seminal novel about the meaningless, powerless, dust-speckiness of human existence Slaughterhouse Five, you should. Tonight's game kinda reminded me of it. But honestly, that's not really unusual. I'm reminded of it a lot, because it's my favorite. Also we share initials.
Anyway, Vonnegut talks about, among many other things, his experiences as a POW in Dresden, Germany as the Allies firebombed the city out of existence. The protagonist of the book, Billy Pilgrim, spends the pivotal event in an underground slaughterhouse (the fifth one in what we can only presume is a series) and thus survives.