The dictator Papa Monzano, and later many other inhabitants of the island of San Lorenzo, commit suicide near the novel's end by using a substance that turns water into a solid.
The narrator of this novel lends his apartment to a poet named Sherman Krebbs, who kills the narrator's cat. The narrator earlier had a conversation with a prostitute named Sandra and talked about the meaning of research with Asa Breed in Illium, New York. Another scene in this novel sees (*) Newt Honikker travel to a Carribean island for the wedding of his brother Frank, whose father helped develop the atomic bomb. Other features of this novel include the words "wampeter" and "karass," which are part of a religion whose members touch the soles of their feet together for spiritual pleasure. The dictator Papa Monzano, and later many other inhabitants of the island of San Lorenzo, commit suicide near the novel's end by using a substance that turns water into a solid. The material ice-nine and the religion of Bokononism play a central role in, for 10 points, what novel by Kurt Vonnegut?
The narrator of this novel lends his apartment to a poet named Sherman Krebbs, who kills the narrator's cat.
{Cat's Cradle}