If you know Vonnegut, perhaps you know the concept of a karass. Tonight I saw a lot of old co-workers, people who were there when I started a new chapter of my life, and them as well. There was a lot of mutual understanding that we had some kind of special chemistry together. I think that was a karass. And now that the last one has left the company, I still had no trouble saying see you next time. We will see each other again. We are a karass.
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Posted 7 years ago today: "It strikes me Trump and his followers exactly fit #Vonnegut's definition of a false #karass aka #granfallon as set out in his novel Cat's Cradle. In that book, his fictional prophet Bokonon in the novel Cat's Cradle as defines a karass--a true karass--as "a team of people who do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing." A false karass is called a granfallon, defined as "a seeming team that is meaningless in terms of the way God gets things done." "

.> ZINN: I think your coming here does that. Not only your writing does that but your coming here and us listening to you and knowing that we are part of a 'carass'. Have any you have read Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle? Kurt Vonnegut is remarkable?this remarkable, interesting, odd mind. In Cat's Cradle he talks about a 'carass'. A carass is when people feel an affinity with one another. They don't know exactly why but it crosses all lines. It crosses national, racial, sexual... it crosses all lines. That's what we depend on. - https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0211/S00035/arundhati-roy-howard-zinn-new-mexico-transcript.htm
#HowardZinn with #ArundhatiRoy talking after teh #ComeSeptember speech, talking about #KurtVonnegut's #CatsCradle and the #Carass or #Karass #ZinnOnVonnegut
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Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn - New Mexico Transcript | Scoop News

Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, New Mexico 18 September 2002