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footfootpaper
footfootpaper
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How does Vonnegut satirize humanity's obsession with the "truth?"

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Posted by footfootpaper on Sunday May 6, 2007 at 4:59 PM and tagged with cat's cradle, theme.

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  1. janeyb

    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."

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    Posted by janeyb on Monday May 7, 2007 at 7:29 AM