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Kurt Vonnegut wasn't the first author who dabbled in an invented religion as a way of expounding his character's (and his own) operational beliefs. In Cat's Cradle Vonnegut laid out Bokononism, a mash-up of various Eastern philosophies as expounded by a double-speaking guru encamped in the Caribbean paradise of San Lorenzo whose hymnal was composed of calypsos. The second chapter in the book
My husband and I were just talking about the karass the other day. (We couldn't remember the name of it, though, so we called it "The thingy that Vonnegut wrote about.")
Somehow, "so many people in the same device" made me think of literary device. Perhaps those people are tangled up because they're in some *$#@#!ing author's novel. Have you seen Stranger Than Fiction? Love the way you do your research and give us the extended story.
And what is a literary device if not the hand of divine fate (the Author Almighty) guiding those characters toward their destinies?Have not seen Stranger Than Fiction yet. It's full of everything I like, except it's about writers. I always find movies about authors leave me wanting to cleanse my palate with documentaries, for some strange reason.
Nice, nice very nice indeed. Thanks for all the wonderful trivia.