Entry 7, Chapter 4 - Epithet

     In chapter four, I noticed that Billy Pilgrim began using the phrase "blue and ivory" to describe various feelings in his feet to the look of the dead. If someone was to describe another person's feet as blue, I would assume their feet were very cold and lacking in circulation. Then, the word ivory makes me think that the feet are stone, and not moving as if circulation was nonexistent. Billy repeated this phrase many times in the book thus far as to describe his own feet as,"he looked down at his bare feet, They were ivory and blue," just as he described his hands as," a blue and ivory claw hooked over the sill of the veniliator." Blue and ivory are adjectives that have been used to describe coldness in one's body or in someone else's body, who is usually dead cold.