Fridge / Cat's Cradle

Fridge Brilliance

• I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I didn't notice this connection until around the fourth or fifth time I read the book over the years. According to Bokonon, the origin of the human race is that God made the mud stand up, take human shape, and come to life so it could see the world God had created. Ice-nine ends up wiping out the human race. What was ice-nine designed for, originally? To get rid of all the mud!
• Not as significant as the above, but what Bokononists say before they kill themselves is "Now I will destroy the whole world." "Papa" Monzano's suicide causes the destruction of the whole world.