Cat's Cradle
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The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Will Felix Hoenikker's death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh? Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global apocalypse preys on our deepest fears of witnessing the end and, worse still, surviving it...
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Избыточное богатство – это священная собственность, распоряжаться которой ее владелец обязан в течение всей своей жизни во благо общества.