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	The Book Report - An Introduction to Kurt Vonnegut
		After all, one of the myths about American life which Vonnegut lays bare is that of the importance of higher education-- it's not so much about learning as it is about making connections.
		Not that connections are bad per se, but one must be able to distinguish meaningful associations based on common goals and interests (karasses) from trumped-up distinctions devised to create an us-vs.-them mentality (granfalloons).
		Cat's Cradle, a satiric novel whose observation of social structures was so keen it fulfilled Vonnegut's anthropology dissertation requirement long after the author had abandoned his studies at the University of Chicago.
	www.zverina.com /bestbooks/vonnegut-intro.htm (572 words)

	Foma*: April 2005
		Foma are the harmless untruths that get us through our life.
		The only canonical foma in Vonnegut's writing is from his essay collection Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons where he uses as an example, "Prosperity is just around the corner."
		This has not been cleared by a lawyer, but if your are unfamilar with the concept of common law copyright, you shouldn't use that as an excuse.
	livebythefoma.blogspot.com /2005_04_01_livebythefoma_archive.html (274 words)

	Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This book, Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a collection of essays written by Vonnegut.
		Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) exists in an aura of surreality, recounting the experiences had by Vonnegut.
		The word wampeter comes from Vonnegut's book, Cat's Cradle (see my review of Cat's Cradle at http://preview.epinions.com/book-review-5DE0-39E4406-397F4030-prod6), and it describes any "object around which the lives of many otherwise unrelated people may revolve".
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	Book Information: Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Wampeters - An object around which the lives of otherwise unrelated people revolve, e.g., The Holy Grail.
		Foma - Harmless, comforting untruths, e.g., "Prosperity is just around the corner."
		Granfalloons - A proud and meaningless association of human beings, e.g., The Veterans of Future Wars.
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	Garden Of Blog » Vonnegut’s Nonfiction
		There are two, to my knowledge: Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) and Palm Sunday (1981, an autobiography… sort of).
		A relatively recent interview will give you the idea (his pen, or tongue, is still in fine, biting form, when he whips it out).
		Wampeters… in particular contains some whithering attacks on war itself, and the society that let it happen, in the Vietnam era.
	www.gardenofblog.com /?p=18 (223 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Vonnegut & His Audience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons is the name of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s new book, a collection of essays, reviews, speeches, etc. Only a writer with Vonnegut's power base could get a book of occasional writings published today, let alone get away with giving it such a title.
		...Of World War II he says in Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, "We had fought something which was totally obscene...
		...Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons* is the name of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s new book, a collection of essays, reviews, speeches, etc...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V58I1P42-1.htm (5210 words)

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		Rosewater, Welcome to the Monkey House, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Slapstick, Breakfast of Champions, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, Bluebeard, Jailbird, Galapagos, and Deadeye Dick among other novels and collections of short stories.
		Although Kurt Vonnegut is not a genre writer, his works can be classified as having the qualities of satire, fantasy, and science fiction along with other styles of fiction such as "weird" fiction.
		"Live by the foma (harmless untruths) that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy" is the Bokononist statement that prefaces the book.
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	Random House \| Books \| Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut
		Taken together, the words form as good an umbrella as any for this collection of some of the reviews and essays I have written, a few of the speeches I have made.
		I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
		Excerpted from Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut Copyright © 1999 by Kurt Vonnegut.
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	Source4book.com Book Reviews for ISBN 0385333811
		Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions) exists in an aura of surreality, recounting the experiences had by Vonnegut.
		Although you'd never guess it from the title, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons is a collection of essays, speeches, and reviews from Kurt Vonnegut - along with one piece of fiction and one interview.
		Certainly, it isn't on par with his wonderful fiction (or even his marvelous non-fiction book, Fates Worse Than Death), but neither does it pretend to be.
	www.source4book.com /Reviews.aspx?isbn=0385333811 (837 words)

	Why Anthropology? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He told me that Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead were already in it—and some sensitive gentlemen as well.
		-Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons (Opinions), p.
		I had come to college with the intention of becoming a psychologist like my father, but reading Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture reset my course.
	departments.oxy.edu /anthropology/whyanth.html (505 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although you'd never guess it from the title, Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons is a collection of essays, speeches, and reviews from Kurt Vonnegut - along with one piece of fiction and one interview.
		I think that, perhaps, this book is most helpful to those who already know Vonnegut's body of work, and simply wish to understand more about the author himself.
		The book can help a reader, already familiar with Vonnegut, understand more about the writer, and the ideas behind his novels.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/022401076X (630 words)

	Anybook.info - Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons - Buy Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons - Read Reviews of Wampeters, ...
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		This book, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions) is a collection of essays written by Vonnegut.
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	NYS Writers Institute at UAlbany Names State Author, Poet
		He is the author of more than two dozen novels, including The Sirens of Titan (1959), Breakfast of Champions (1973), and Timequake (1997).
		He has also written several collections of non-fiction, including Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1975), and the play Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971).
		Vonnegut is perhaps best known for the novel Slaughterhouse Five (1969), which was recently ranked at No. 18 on the Modern Library’s list of the top 100 novels of the 20th century.
	www.albany.edu /feature2000/12-11/author_poet.html (601 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Buy Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons with Player Piano today!
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		"Wampeter's, Foma, and Granfalloons" basically consists of Vonnegut's public speeches, as well as various essays.
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		Kurt Vonnegut has written a number of great novels (Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Mr.
		Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, Welcome to the Monkey House, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Breakfast of Champions, Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons, Slapstick, and Jailbird).
		The one that we are going to review here is Jailbird (N.Y.: Delacorte, 1979).
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/story4a.html (804 words)

	KURT VONNEGUT: Player Piano related Playboy Interview
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		Vonnegut on science fiction, Player Piano, and model airplanes from the 1973 Playboy interview (Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, 259-261).
		From the 1973 Playboy interview (Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, 259-261)
	www.vonnegutweb.com /playerpiano/pp_playboyinterview.html (976 words)

	any Vonnegut readers in here? - @forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From there, I went through Breakfast of Champions, Deadeye Dick, Galapágos, God Bless You Mr.
		Rosewater, Player Piano, Slapstick, Slaughterhouse-Five, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, and Welcome to the Monkey House.
		Read the obligatory Slaughterhouse 5, which I thought was great, and I'd like to read another.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=136551 (454 words)

	Screams of Terror - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Promises Horror to Grad Class
		Everything is going to be unimaginatively worse, and never get better.
		-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., “Address to Graduating Class at Bennington College, 1970”, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, 159-68, NY, Lawrence-Delacorte, 1974.
		Five.1 Resting as you once did on the thin
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	exit zero (formerly what are they saying): Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		exit zero (formerly what are they saying): Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
		Potty-mouthed antiwar 'cartoonist' and professional liar Micah Wright has been remixed.
		Posted by Mary at May 3, 2004 08:37 PM
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	Amazon.com: Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons: Books: Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	The Paleolithic Mind
		Address to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1971
		Included in Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons -- "a Vonnegut miscellany" (essays)
		Vonnegut begins by arguing that emotions are biochemically ("chemically") based.
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	LIT 3327 - FALL 1997
		Discuss: How authors achieve and maintain voice; techniques for establishing style; form vs. content
		Foma, and Granfalloons, entire book; Plimpton, "Doris Lessing")
		Discuss: The role of the absurd in writing; how authors convert personal experience into fiction; how characters are built as composites
	www.utdallas.edu /~nelsen/lit3327fall97.html (604 words)

	Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons - Kurt, Jr Vonnegut - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons - Kurt, Jr Vonnegut - Used Books
		Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons by Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr (Enlarge this photo)
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