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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I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
Я потерял все и теперь настолько беден, что действительно не могу позволить себе роскоши беспокоиться о чем бы то ни было.