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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I remember reading Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons a long time ago, but I don't recall reading the Books of Bokonon. Was there a Holy Grail in there?
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No. The Holy Grail was just used as an example of a wampeter.
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Dear Reader: The title of this book is composed of three words from my novel Cat's Cradle. A "wampeter" is an object around which the lives of many otherwise unrelated people may revolve. The Holy Grail would be a case in point. "Foma" are harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls. An example: "Prosperity is just around the corner." A "granfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. Taken together, the words form as good an umbrella as any for this collection of some of the reviews and essays I've written, a few of the speeches I made.
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The Books of Bokonon were fictitious. They were the scriptures of Bokonism from Vonnegut's fictitious religion in Cat's Cradle.