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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Ice-nine. Formed of ordinary oxygen and hydrogen, it is able to freeze all liquid water that it touches into identical crystals of ice-nine via chain-reaction--eventually freezing all water on Earth. This is impossible in the real world due to the simple state of hydrogen-bonds that form liquid [=H2O=] and ice, preventing any such strange isomer-crystal. There are crystals that can react that way, just not water; the ice-nine crystal is supposed to "teach" any liquid water it comes in contact with to freeze as ice-nine.
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Ice-nine. Formed of ordinary oxygen and hydrogen, it is able to freeze all liquid water that it touches into identical crystals of ice-nine via chain-reaction--eventually freezing all water on Earth. This is impossible in the real world due to the simple state of hydrogen-bonds that form liquid [=H2O=] and ice, preventing any such strange isomer-crystal. There are crystals that can react that way, just not water; the ice-nine crystal is supposed to "teach" any liquid water it comes in contact with to freeze as ice-nine.ice-nine, which is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs a very real problem]] in more complex molecules.
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* VillainSong: The serial killer George Minor Moakely wrote and performed a song at his execution in 1782 about how he killed twenty-six people and didn't feel a shred of remorse about it. The lyrics can be found over at the Historical Society.
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%%* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
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* UnwittingPawn: Newt and Angela both get played like violins in the back-story by [[spoiler: agents of the U.S. and Soviet governments]] looking to get control of some Ice-Nine.
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* UnwittingPawn: Newt and Angela both get played like violins in the back-story by [[spoiler: agents of the U.S. and Soviet governments]] looking to get control of some Ice-Nine.
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** FantasyCounterpartCulture: San Lorenzo is quite obviously based on RealLife Haiti - their dialectal speech, poverty, tyrannical rule, economy based on sugar, and also by their glimpse of history (San Lorenzo had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Christophe a mad Emperor]] who built [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadelle_Laferrière a gigantic and useless citadel]]). Though Haiti is also briefly mentioned in the novel.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: San Lorenzo is quite obviously based on RealLife Haiti - their dialectal speech, poverty, tyrannical rule, economy based on sugar, and also by their glimpse of history (San Lorenzo had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Christophe a mad Emperor]] who built [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadelle_Laferrière a gigantic and useless citadel]]). Though Haiti is also briefly mentioned in the novel.
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* MinovskyPhysics
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* SacredScripture: The ''Books of Bokonon'', which start with the handy warning: "All of the true facts I am about to tell you are shameless lies."
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* SacredScripture: The ''Books of Bokonon'', which start with the handy warning: "All of the true facts I am about to tell you are shameless lies."lies".
* ScienceIsBad: Or at least, science for its own sake is bad, because it doesn't know or really care about the consequences of what it creates.
* ScienceIsBad: Or at least, science for its own sake is bad, because it doesn't know or really care about the consequences of what it creates.
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* ScienceIsBad: Or at least, science for its own sake is bad, because it doesn't know or really care about the consequences of what it creates.
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* BenevolentDictator: Bokonon and [=McCabe=]. They divided the country's total income between every adult (which amounted to six dollars each nonetheless...). Also, after being officially banned and every worshipper of his hunted, ''everyone'' is (secretly) still a Bokononist, including Papa Monzano, who made Christianity the state religion.
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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to a certain]] Music/HarryChapin [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant song.]]
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Mona.
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* SelfDeprecation: This exchange between John and Phillip Castle:
-->"I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."\\
"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?"\\
"I'll accept that. Guilty as charged."
-->"I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."\\
"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?"\\
"I'll accept that. Guilty as charged."
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-->''And I would climb to the top of Mount [=McCabe=] and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow, and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men and I would make a statue of myself lying on my back, grinning horribly and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.''
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-->''And I would climb to the top of Mount [=McCabe=] [=McCabe=]\\
and lie down on my back with my history for apillow, pillow,\\
and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues ofmen men\\
and I would make a statue of myself lying on my back, grinninghorribly horribly\\
and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.''
and lie down on my back with my history for a
and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of
and I would make a statue of myself lying on my back, grinning
and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.''
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Wiki/ namespace cleaning.
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* ArcWords: Bokononism has a lot of them. Wiki/ThatOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle#Terms_introduced_in_the_novel full list]].
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* ArcWords: Bokononism has a lot of them. Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Website/ThatOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle#Terms_introduced_in_the_novel full list]].
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: "Papa" Monzano, twice. The first time [[spoiler: when he commits suicide by swallowing the ice-nine, dramatically raising the risk of it getting into the world's water supply]], and the second time [[spoiler: when the ceremony arranged by him prior to his death results in an airplane crashing into his home and sending his ice-nine-infected corpse tumbling into the sea.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** "Papa" Monzano, twice. The first time [[spoiler: when he commits suicide by swallowing the ice-nine, dramatically raising the risk of it getting into the world's water supply]], and the second time [[spoiler: when the ceremony arranged by him prior to his death results in an airplane crashing into his home and sending his ice-nine-infected corpse tumbling into the sea.]]]]
** Also the unnamed US military officer who got Dr. Hoennikker interested in the idea of Ice-Nine in the first place.
** "Papa" Monzano, twice. The first time [[spoiler: when he commits suicide by swallowing the ice-nine, dramatically raising the risk of it getting into the world's water supply]], and the second time [[spoiler: when the ceremony arranged by him prior to his death results in an airplane crashing into his home and sending his ice-nine-infected corpse tumbling into the sea.
** Also the unnamed US military officer who got Dr. Hoennikker interested in the idea of Ice-Nine in the first place.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
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* OhCrap: The three Hoenikker siblings upon being shown "Papa" Monzano's Ice-Nine infected corpse. Newt goes one better and throws up.
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** It also teaches that one shouldn't assume a group they've fallen into is a ''karass''. It may well be a ''granfalloon'', a group that ''thinks'' they're joined together by fate but actually aren't.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Bokonon tells the protagonist what he would do if he were "a younger man"...such as the protagonist. It is heavily implied that John does exactly what Bokonon says. We know for a fact that he does part of it by the end of the book.
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* UnwittingPawn: Newt and Angela both get played like violins in the back-story by people looking to get control of some Ice-Nine.
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* UnwittingPawn: Newt and Angela both get played like violins in the back-story by people [[spoiler: agents of the U.S. and Soviet governments]] looking to get control of some Ice-Nine.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: People don't understand why Emily Hoenikker, who was a very beautiful and popular woman, married Felix, who only cared about science and barely noticed her.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: People don't understand why Emily Hoenikker, who was a very beautiful and popular woman, married Felix, who only cared about science and barely noticed her.her.
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-->''And I would climb to the top of Mount [=McCabe=] and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow, and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men and I would make a statue of myself lying on my back, grinning horribly and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.''
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: The island of San Lorenzo has only one punishment for any crime: death by impalement on a giant hook.
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: The island of San Lorenzo has only one punishment for any crime: death by impalement on a giant hook. Though it's rare that anyone actually gets punished.
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** FantasyCounterpartCulture: San Lorenzo is quite obviously based on RealLife Haiti - their dialectal speech, poverty, tyrannical rule, economy based on sugar, and also by their glimpse of history (San Lorenzo had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Christophe a mad Emperor]] who built [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadelle_Laferrière a gigantic and useless citadel]]).
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** FantasyCounterpartCulture: San Lorenzo is quite obviously based on RealLife Haiti - their dialectal speech, poverty, tyrannical rule, economy based on sugar, and also by their glimpse of history (San Lorenzo had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Christophe a mad Emperor]] who built [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadelle_Laferrière a gigantic and useless citadel]]). Though Haiti is also briefly mentioned in the novel.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Bokonon and Earl [=McCabe=], rulers of the fictional West Indian country San Lorenzo, create a new religion, Bokononism, in order to ease the suffering of the people. To increase the new religion's appeal to the masses by giving them some entertaining drama, [=McCabe=] outlaws its practice upon pain of death (while practicing it in secret), whereupon Bokonon "flees" into the jungle, a "wanted" man. Over time, however, the two men become so habituated to their respective roles in the charade that they go insane and become enemies for real. [[spoiler: Though when "Papa" Monzano (Mc Cabe's successor) dies, he rejects the Christian Last Rites - having declared Christianity the official religion of San Lorenzo -- because "I have always been a Bokononist."]]
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Bokonon and Earl [=McCabe=], rulers of the fictional West Indian Caribbean country San Lorenzo, create a new religion, Bokononism, in order to ease the suffering of the people. To increase the new religion's appeal to the masses by giving them some entertaining drama, [=McCabe=] outlaws its practice upon pain of death (while practicing it in secret), whereupon Bokonon "flees" into the jungle, a "wanted" man. Over time, however, the two men become so habituated to their respective roles in the charade that they go insane and become enemies for real. [[spoiler: Though when "Papa" Monzano (Mc Cabe's successor) dies, he rejects the Christian Last Rites - having declared Christianity the official religion of San Lorenzo -- because "I have always been a Bokononist."]]
* DisasterDominoes: A single small plane crashing leads pretty directly to the end of the world.
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* InMysteriousWays: The Bokononist religion says that all living beings are arranged by God in groups called a ''karass'', arranged around a person or object called a ''wampeter'' (in this case, ice-nine), in order to advance the divine will. The members of a ''karass'' may never even know each other, and their work may overlap in bizarre, coincidental ways, but they work together for a single purpose that they'll never know.
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* InMysteriousWays: The Bokononist religion says that all living beings are arranged by God in groups called a ''karass'', arranged around a person or object called a ''wampeter'' (in this case, ice-nine), in order to advance the divine will. The members of a ''karass'' may never even know each other, and their work may overlap in bizarre, coincidental ways, but they work together for a single purpose that they'll probably never know.know. John thinks he's figured his out by the end of the novel.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The narrator falls in love with Mona before even meeting her, seeing her image in a magazine.
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* SpoilerCover: As seen above.
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* ShortLivedLeadership: John becomes the new President of San Lorenzo for at most a few hours before the world ends.
* SpoilerCover: As seenabove. above, though the earlier hardback versions tended to be better about it, often showing, yes, a cat's cradle.
* SpoilerCover: As seen