Are they granfaloon or karass?
From Wikipedia under Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle:
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karass – A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident.
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granfalloon – a false karass ; i.e., a group of people who imagine they have a connection that does not really exist. An example is “Hoosiers”; Hoosiers are people from Indiana, and Hoosiers have no true spiritual destiny in common, so really share little more than a name.
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wampeter – the central theme or purpose of a karass . Each karass has two wampeters at any given time, one waxing and one waning.
Do they actually know their wampeter?
