"Cat's Cradle" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vonnegut Kurt) Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle The Day the World Ended 1 Nice, Nice, Very Nice 2 Folly 3 A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils 4 Letter from a Pre-med 5 Bug Fights 6 The Illustrious Hoenikkers 7 Newt’s Thing with Zinka 8 Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes 9 Secret Agent X-9 10 Protein 11 End of the World Delight 12 The Jumping-off Place 13 When Automobiles Had Cut-glass Vases 14 Merry Christmas 15 Back to Kindergarten 16 The Girl Pool 17 The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth 18 No More Mud 19 Ice-nine 20 The Marines March On 21 Member of the Yellow Press 22 The Last Batch of Brownies 23 What a Wampeter Is 24 The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker 25 What God Is 26 Men from Mars 27 Mayonnaise 28 Gone, but Not Forgotten 29 Only Sleeping 30 Another Breed 31 Dynamite Money 32 An Ungrateful Man 33 Vin-dit 34 Hobby Shop 35 Meow 36 A Modern Major General 37 Barracuda Capital of the World 38 Fata Morgana 39 House of Hope and Mercy 40 A Karass Built for Two 41 Bicycles for Afghanistan 42 The Demonstrator 43 Communist Sympathizers 44 Why Americans Are Hated 45 The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar 46 Dynamic Tension 47 Just Like Saint Augustine 48 A Fish Pitched Up by an Angry Sea 49 A Nice Midget 50 O.K., Mom 51 No Pain 52 The President of Fabri-Tek 53 Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, and Draft Dodgers 54 Never Index Your Own Book 55 A Self-supporting Squirrel Cage 56 The Queasy Dream 57 Tyranny with a Difference 58 Fasten Your Seat Belts 59 An Underprivileged Nation 60 What a Corporal Was Worth 61 Why Hazel Wasn’t Scared 62 Reverent and Free 63 Peace and Plenty 64 A Good Time to Come to San Lorenzo 65 The Strongest Thing There Is 66 Hy-u-o-ook-kuh! 67 Hoon-yera Mora-toorz 68 A Big Mosaic 69 Tutored by Bokonon 70 The Happiness of Being an American 71 The Pissant Hilton 72 Black Death 73 Cat’s Cradle 74 Give My Regards to Albert Schweitzer 75 Julian Castle Agrees with Newt that Everything Is Meaningless 76 Aspirin and Boko-maru 77 Ring of Steel 78 Why McCabe’s Soul Grew Coarse 79 The Waterfall Strainers 80 A White Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter 81 Zah-mah-ki-bo 82 Dr. Schlichter von Koenigswald Approaches the Break-even Point 83 Blackout 84 A Pack of Foma 85 Two Little Jugs 86 The Cut of My Jib 87 Why Frank Couldn’t Be President 88 Duffle 89 Only One Catch 90 Mona 91 On the Poet’s Celebration of His First Boko-maru 92 How I Almost Lost My Mona 93 The Highest Mountain 94 I See the Hook 95 Bell, Book, and Chicken in a Hatbox 96 The Stinking Christian 97 Last Rites 98 Dyot meet mat 99 Down the Oubliette Goes Frank 100 Like My Predecesors, I Outlaw Bokonon 101 Enemies of Freedom 102 A Medical Opinion on the Effects of a Writers’ Strike 103 Sulfathiazole 104 Pain-killer 105 What Bokononists Say When They Commit Suicide 106 Feast Your Eyes! 107 Frank Tells Us What to Do 108 Frank Defends Himself 109 The Fourteenth Book 110 Time Out 111 Newt’s Mother’s Reticule 112 History 113 When I Felt the Bullet Enter My Heart 114 As It Happened 115 The Grand Ah-whoom 116 Sanctuary 117 The Iron Maiden and the Oubliette 118 Mona Thanks Me 119 To Whom It May Concern 120 I Am Slow to Answer 121 The Swiss Family Robinson 122 Of Mice and Men 123 Frank’s Ant Farm 124 The Tasmanians 125 Soft Pipes, Play On 126 The End 127
Nice, Nice, Very Nice 2 “If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reasons,” writes Bokonon, “that person may be a member of your karass .”
At another point in The Books of Bokonon he tells us, “Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass .” By that he means that a karass ignores national, institutional, occupational, familial, and class boundaries.
It is as free-form as an amoeba.
In his “Fifty-third Calypso,” Bokonon invites us to sing along with him:
Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British queen— All fit together In the same machine. Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice— So many different people In the same device.