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        <title><![CDATA[Please describe these characters to the best of your ability.]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does John/Jonah write this story when he knows that it will not be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does John/Jonah write this story when he knows that it will not be read by anyone since mankind is dying?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bokononism's purpose is to "provide people with better and better lies,"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bokononism's purpose is to "provide people with better and better lies," lies that will keep them from seeing the Hobbesian truth, that "life was as short and brutish and mean as ever." This view justifies fiction and art, yet Vonnegut cannot easily resolve the "cruel paradox of Bokononist thought, the heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality, and the heartbreaking impossibility of lying about it."]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Vonnegut satirize humanity's obsession with the "truth?"]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Vonnegut satirize humanity's obsession with the "truth?"]]></description>
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