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  By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Here is a List of Bokonist Terms.

Karass – Organized teams that do God’s will without ever discovering what they are doing

Kan-kan – the instrument that brings you to your karass

Calypso-a poem in the books of Bokonon

Sinooka – tendrils of your life that tie you to your karass

Wampeter – anything that the karass has in common in which they all revolve around in majestic chaos

“Busy, busy, busy” – What Bokonists say when they think of how complicated the machinery of life is

Vid-dit – a sudden very personal shove toward a Bokonist belief that God has very elaborate plans for you

Wrang-wrang – a person who steers people away from a life of speculation by reducing that line with an example of the wrang-wrang’s own life to an absurdity.

Duprass – a karass built for two.

Granfalloon -  a false karass; a seeming team that is meaningless in terms of the ways god gets things done; any man made teams

Boko-maru – Mingling of awareness by connecting clean well tended feet together.

Zah-Mah-ki-bo – Bokonist term for inevitable destiny

Foma – Lies

Duffle – thousands of lives of peoples destines placed in the hands of a stupa

Stupa – a fogbound child (an idiot)

Saroon – a to acquiesce to the seeming demands of your vid-dit

Sin-wat – a man who wants all of somebody’s love

Pabu – Moon

Borassisi – Sun

Pool-Pah – Wrath of Go
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