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CAT'S CRADLE
by Kurt Vonnegut

Copyright 1963 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Published by DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC., 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017 All rights reserved.

ISBN: 0-440-11149-8



For Kenneth Littauer,
a man of gallantry and taste.


Nothing in this book is true.

"Live by the foma* that makes you brave and kind and healthy and happy."

--The Books of Bokonon. 1:5
*Harmless untruths







contents

1. The Day the World Ended
2. Nice, Nice, Very Nice
3. Folly
4. A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils
5. Letter from a Pie-med
6. Bug Fights
7. The Illustrious Hoenikkers
8. Newt's Thing with Zinka
9. Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes
10. Secret Agent X-9
11. Protein
12. End of the World Delight
13. The Jumping-off Place
14. When Automobiles Had Cut-glass Vases
15. Merry Christmas
16. Back to Kindergarten
17. The Girl Pool
18. The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth
19. No More Mud
20. Ice-nine