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Cat’s Cradle<\/em> is a story about the end of the world, related to us by a man who witnessed the destruction and could explain how it came to occur. It is also the only known record of the philosophy of Bokonon, sung and subsequently archived as calypsos by a prophet with profound insight into the events directly preceding said apocalypse. Cat’s Cradle was written in 1963 by Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>. Kurt Vonnegut was written in 1922 on blank parchment by a sudden confluence of DNA in Indianapolis, Indiana.<\/p>\n

Open question to the denizens of MOG . Has anyone heard (or be willing to record) the Calypsos of Bokonon from Cat’s Cradle<\/em>? (Looking hopefully towards you, Spencer.)<\/p>\n

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\nimage from science blog, Keat’s Telescope<\/a>
\nsee the cat? see the cradle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cat’s Cradle is a story about the end of the world, related to us by a man who witnessed the destruction and could explain how it came to occur. It is also the only known record of the philosophy of Bokonon, sung and subsequently archived as calypsos by a prophet with profound insight into the . . . → Continue reading: The Calypsos of Bokonon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Calypsos of Bokonon • Aharon's Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/12\/the-calypsos-of-bokonon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Calypsos of Bokonon • Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cat’s Cradle is a story about the end of the world, related to us by a man who witnessed the destruction and could explain how it came to occur. 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