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To: furrfu who wrote (23)	8/7/2001 11:19:20 AM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 180

RE: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ("Where's the damned cat? Where's the damned cradle?!") LOL! That reminds me of a scene in an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart, Nelson, and Milhouse walk out of a theatre having viewed The Naked Lunch (Burroughs) and Nelson irritatedly comments: "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title!"

To: furrfu who wrote (23)	8/7/2001 9:54:16 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 180

<I submit for your consideration: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ("Where's the damned cat? Where's the damned cradle?!"). in November of 1966 i am sitting in a chair in St.Thomas,VI(a caribbean atmoshere for a carribbean book:)--i was ,at the time,living in VI,and learning much about chaos:)---well anyway,i sitting there and i come to that line,and i just shake my head muttering "amen,brother,amen,brother--that's says it all" Indeed as great a line to ever appear in a book ,and he built to that line masterfully.I feel the whole book was written to get to the line--that is from the moment K.V. started to write Cat'sCradle,he was driving to that moment. Paxmax