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The phrase "Cats in the Cradle" is a familiar one to most everyone, but it is a phrase that brings about mixed emotions. Is the cat being in the cradle a good thing or a bad thing? Does the image bring about feelings of family and childhood or danger and death? American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin's famous song has made the phrase famous.
I finally read Cat's Cradle! [spoilers ho!] Cat's Cradle. I've been getting into Vonnegut over the past year, and Cat's Cradle has been my sort-of self-imposed summer reading homework. Now that I've finished it, I'm more than anything impressed! Sirens of Titan is still my personal favorite book (mostly due to its big, gushy bleeding heart ...
The cat and the cradle in are granfalloons. They are the artificial structures that humans give value to in their search for understanding. The human brain searches for patterns and relies on this pattern recognition as a way of efficiently processing data, that is why things like cat's cradles work.
It helped me to become more at ease with my beliefs in certain matters, and I really highly recommend it, above most of his other books. The thing about Cat's Cradle is that the chapters are divided up quite well; Vonnegut was a genius at keeping relevant information together in and separating the rest.
Take a walk on the wild side and dive into his early short story work including my favorite short of his ever: 2BR02B. Cats Cradle is one of my favs. Others are Breakfast of Champions, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos, Bluebeard, Jailbird...
Cats in the Cradle. Personally I feel like this song doesn't convey the point I think it was supposed to. I think the idea is the father is somewhat absent, and "my boy was just like me" is the father realizing his son was just like him, caught up in the busy life style and missing out on the important things in life.
My Old Man by David Mallett is like the happier yet still sad version of Cats in the Cradle. The live version from Parallel Lines is the best version. Seasons in the Sun -- Terry Jacks. Just about anything by John Prine or Steve Goodman. 21 votes, 69 comments. 119K subscribers in the ClassicRock community.
Cats Cradle was intense, but it was so very Vonnegut in the best ways. All the meandering, the characters, the science, coming together into something big but meaningless, and finding meaning in those closest to you. It’s not my favorite (Sirens of Titan is), but it’s one of them. Nicely done. Busy, busy, busy!
Sirens is expansive and covers a LOT of themes. Cat's Cradle had fewer themes, but delves into them really deep. No damn cat. No damn cradle. Read Cat's Cradle first, then read it again. Then read Sirens of Titan. As long as you read both, it doesn't really matter. Cats Cradle is tied for my favorite book ever.
A cat’s cradle is nothing but a bunch of X’s between somebody’s hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X’s….No damn cat, No damn cradle” directly refers to Vonnegut's perceived flaw in human nature-a need to find meaning. Even the fictitious religion of Bokononism, a religion based completely on lies, serves to ...