Cat's Cradle

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Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
Publisher(s): Turtleback Books
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Summary

"Cat's Cradle" is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.

Table of Contents

The Day the World Ended
1(1)
Nice, Nice, Very Nice
2(2)
Folly
4(1)
A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils
5(3)
Letter from a Pre-Med
8(5)
Bug Fights
13(5)
The Illustrious Hoenikkers
18(1)
Newt's Thing with Zinka
19(1)
Vice-President in Charge of Volcanoes
20(1)
Secret Agent X-9
21(3)
Protein
24(1)
End of the World Delight
25(2)
The Jumping-off Place
27(3)
When Automobiles Had Cut-Glass Vases
30(2)
Merry Christmas
32(3)
Back to Kindergarten
35(2)
The Girl Pool
37(2)
The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth
39(3)
No More Mud
42(2)
Ice-Nine
44(3)
The Marines March on
47(1)
Member of the Yellow Press
48(2)
The Last Batch of Brownies
50(2)
What a Wampeter is
52(1)
The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker
53(1)
What Gog is
54(1)
Men from Mars
55(3)
Mayonnaise
58(2)
Gone, but not Forgotten
60(1)
Only Sleeping
61(2)
Another Breed
63(1)
Dynamite Money
64(2)
An Ungrateful Man
66(3)
Vin-Dit
69(4)
Hobby Shop
73(4)
Meow
77(2)
A Modern Major General
79(2)
Barracuda Capital of the World
81(1)
Fata Morgana
82(2)
House of Hope and Mercy
84(2)
A Karass Built for two
86(2)
Bicycles for Afghanistan
88(4)
The Demonstrator
92(4)
Communist Sympthizers
96(2)
Why Americans are Hated
98(1)
The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar
99(2)
Dynamic Tension
101(2)
Just Like Saint Augustine
103(1)
A Fish Pitched up by an Angry Sea
104(5)
A Nice Midget
109(1)
O.K., Mom
110(4)
No Pain
114(2)
The President of Fabri-Tek
116(2)
Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, and Draft Dodgers
118(1)
Never Index Your own Book
119(4)
A Self-Supporting Squirrel Cage
123(2)
The Queasy Dream
125(2)
Tyranny with a Difference
127(2)
Fasten your Seat Belts
129(3)
An Underprivileged Nation
132(2)
What a Corporal Was Worth
134(2)
Why Hazel Wasn't Scared
136(1)
Reverent and Free
137(2)
Peace and Plenty
139(2)
A Good Time to Come to San Lorenzo
141(3)
The Strongest Thing There is
144(3)
Hy-U-O-Ook-Kuhi
147(2)
Hoon-Yera Mora-Toorz
149(1)
A big Mosaic
150(3)
Tutored by Bokonon
153(1)
The Happiness of Being an American
154(2)
The Pissant Hilton
156(3)
Black Death
159(4)
Cat's Cradle
163(3)
Give my Regards to Albert Scweitzer
166(2)
Julian Castle Agrees with Newt that Everything is Meaningless
168(2)
Aspirin and Boko-Maru
170(2)
Ring of Steel
172(2)
Why McCabe's Soul Grew Coarse
174(2)
The Waterfall Strainers
176(4)
A white Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter
180(3)
Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo
183(2)
Dr. Schlichter Von Koenigswald Approaches the Break-Even Point
185(2)
Blackout
187(2)
A Pack of Foma
189(2)
Two Little Jugs
191(3)
The Cut of my Jib
194(3)
Why Frank Couldn't be President
197(2)
Duffle
199(2)
Only one Catch
201(2)
Mona
203(2)
On the Poet's Celebration of his First Boko-Maru
205(1)
How I Almost Lost my Mona
206(4)
The Highest Mountain
210(2)
I See the Hook
212(1)
Bell, Book, and Chicken in a Hatbox
213(3)
The Stinking Christian
216(3)
Last Rites
219(1)
Dyot Meet Mat
220(3)
Down the Oubliette Goes Frank
223(2)
Like my Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon
225(2)
Enemies of Freedom
227(3)
A Medical Opinion on the Effects of a Writers' Strike
230(2)
Sulfathiazole
232(3)
Pain-Killer
235(2)
What Bokononists Say when they Commit Suicide
237(2)
Feast your Eyes!
239(1)
Frank Tells us what to do
240(2)
Frank Defends Himself
242(2)
The Fourteenth Book
244(1)
Time out
245(3)
Newt's Mother's Reticule
248(2)
History
250(2)
When I Felt the Bullet Enter my Heart
252(5)
As it Happened
257(2)
The Grand Ah-Whoom
259(2)
Sanctuary
261(2)
The Iron Maiden and the Oubliette
263(4)
Mona Thanks me
267(3)
To whom it may Concern
270(3)
I am Slow to Answer
273(2)
The Swiss Family Robinson
275(1)
Of Mice and Men
276(3)
Frank's Ant Farm
279(3)
The Tasmanians
282(2)
Soft Pipes, Play on
284(2)
The end
286

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