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Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, [ 1 ] exploring and satirizing issues of science , technology , the purpose of religion , and the arms race , often through the use of morbid humor .
Leonard Susskind's The Cosmic Landscape calls Cat's Cradle and its use of ice-nine a "cautionary tale about madness and instability in a world full of nuclear weapons", as well as being based on the real scientific principle of metastability. Saying that, while in the real world, liquid water at room temperature is stable, it explains that in ...
Bokonon, a character in the book Cat's Cradle; Bokonon, a diviner among the Fon people (see also pt:Bokonon This page was last edited on 9 ...
Kurt Vonnegut (/ ˈ v ɒ n ə ɡ ə t / VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. [1] His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death.
A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass".That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.
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Dear Reader: The title of this book is composed of three words from my novel Cat's Cradle. A "wampeter" is an object around which the lives of many otherwise unrelated people may revolve. The Holy Grail would be a case in point. "Foma" are harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls. An example: "Prosperity is just around the corner."
The project expands a vacant, 8,800-square-foot building at 107 Brewer Lane into a two-story, up to 14,000-square-foot club, about 1,000 square feet larger than Cat’s Cradle, according to county ...