Unstuck in Time: Horses

"When Billy saw the condition of his means of transportation, he burst into tears. He hadn't cried about anything else in the war." pg 197. Billy doesn't cry for one reason: he knows that everything is as it is supposed to be and will always be that way. Then why does he cry for the horses? It is a question that really makes you think on the reason for this, since even horses are supposed to act in a certain way and will always act in that way according to Tralfamadorians. There is really just one difference between the horses and every other event which he lives.

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After he sees all the deaths in the war, he doesn't cry. After the death of the people in the airplane, he doesn't cry. Even when his wife dies or even in the moments before his death, he doesn't cry. What all these moments have in common is that they are something that he had traveled to at some point, and so he knew what was going to happen to them. The part on the horses on the other hand were something which he had let pass completely, and so not being prepared to confront this by knowing of it earlier, causes him to react in the way people are normally supposed to react. This may have been the first time he landed in this particular space in time seeing the horses, and so landing for the first time in one of his unstuck in time moments may bring him some impacts, as is the example of him at his part with Trout when he sees the quartet.