Xerox: 'A trademark used for a photocopying process or machine employing xerography. This trademark often occurs in print in lowercase as a verb and noun' ( http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Xerox ).
The word xerox in its original meaning is the name of a company, which produce photocopying machines, but has turned into a neologism. It is now two different nouns, and a verb. A xerox can be either a copying machine, or the actual copy, used in Slaughterhouse 5. The verb xerox is to make a photocopy of something. As the word is not very formal, then the text becomes informal/ familiar.
I found an interesting part in the text. My classmates and I have wondered a lot about the 'time travel' that Billy claims to make, but in a part he kind of contradics himself. Billy's daughter says, 'Daddy,' she said tentatively. 'Daddy? ' But Billy was ten years away, back in 1958' (Chapter 9, SH5). This also confirmed my hypothesis, that Billy doesn't time travel, just day (or night) dreams as any other human, but has flashbacks in his dreams. His daughter is there calling him, but he is in the middle of a dream/ flashback. There might be a more metaphorical reason for the 'time travel', but for now i'm quite sure that they're just dreams.
Billy also has a very strange thing, the Tralfamadorians. He is the only one that believes in them, but strangely, one of the Kilgore Trout books is about a couple of humans, 'They were put on display in a zoo on a planet called Zircon-212' (Chapter 9, SH5)This is the same that happened to Billy, so either he is just imagining these things to go out of his world, his problems, or Vonnegut is trying to tell us something, using the Tralfamadorians as transmitters.
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