"‘Does he call you Mom?’
‘I almost asked him to. And then I stopped, and I wondered if maybe it wouldn’t be rude to ask a midget to do that.’
‘Nonsense.’"
‘I almost asked him to. And then I stopped, and I wondered if maybe it wouldn’t be rude to ask a midget to do that.’
‘Nonsense.’"
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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"‘Music,’ he said.
‘Pardon me?’ I asked.
‘That’s why she married him. She said his mind was tuned to the biggest music there was, the music of the stars.’ He shook his head. ‘Crap.’"
‘Pardon me?’ I asked.
‘That’s why she married him. She said his mind was tuned to the biggest music there was, the music of the stars.’ He shook his head. ‘Crap.’"
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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"A winded, defeated-looking fat woman in filthy coveralls trudged beside us, hearing what Miss Pefko said. She turned to examine Dr Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
The fat woman’s expression implied that she would go crazy on the spot if anybody did any more thinking."
The fat woman’s expression implied that she would go crazy on the spot if anybody did any more thinking."
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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"‘If I actually supervised Felix,’ he said, ‘then I’m ready now to take charge if volcanoes, the tides, and the migrations of birds and lemmings. The man was a force if nature no mortal could possibly control.’"
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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"
I do not intend that this book be a tract on behalf of Bokononism. I should like to offer a Bokononist warning about it, however. The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is this:
‘All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.’
My Bokononist warning is this:
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
So be it.
"Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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