He has come to the island of San Lorenzo to learn about Nobel Laureate Felix Hoenikker, who smells "like the mouth of Hell" when shoving the titular object into his son Newt's face.
One early conversation in this work is on the prevalence of Hoosiers in leadership, including Abraham Lincoln and "the new Ambassador to Yugoslavia". This attempt at fellowship is called a granfalloon by the narrator, who takes this term, along with sin-wat and karass, from a certain text that also contains several Calypsos. He has come to the island of San Lorenzo to learn about Nobel Laureate Felix Hoenikker, who smells "like the mouth of Hell" when shoving the titular object into his son Newt's face. For ten points, name this novel in which Bokonon survives a cataclysm involving ice-nine, a commentary on science, religion and morality by Kurt Vonnegut.
One early conversation in this work is on the prevalence of Hoosiers in leadership, including Abraham Lincoln and "the new Ambassador to Yugoslavia".
{Cat’s Cradle}