This article is about some intentionally cryptic concepts. For the heraldic and military flags, see gonfalon.
A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.
As quoted in And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life (2011) by Charles J. Shields, Vonnegut writes in his introduction to his book Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) that a "granfalloon is a proud and meaningless collection of human beings"; Shields also comments that in the same book, Vonnegut later cites the demonym of 'Hoosiers' as "one of [Vonnegut's] favorite examples" of what the term embodies. Another example of a granfalloon given in Cat's Cradle is 'alumni of Cornell University'. Kurt Vonnegut himself was born in Indiana and attended Cornell University.
A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That...
which is a group of individuals appointed by God to do his will, and a "granfalloon", defined by Marvin as a "meaningless association of people, such as...
Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle describes this identification as an example of a granfalloon. In the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales (starring Clint Eastwood), a shopkeeper...
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Portfolio (2013) Complete Stories (2017) Collected non-fiction Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without...
Portfolio (2013) Complete Stories (2017) Collected non-fiction Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without...
Portfolio (2013) Complete Stories (2017) Collected non-fiction Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without...
which was included in his collection of essays, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons. Vonnegut maintained a correspondence with Costa. The author said, "The...
Portfolio (2013) Complete Stories (2017) Collected non-fiction Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without...
Portfolio (2013) Complete Stories (2017) Collected non-fiction Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without...
extensionist Willie Faloon (born 1986), Northern Irish rugby union player Granfalloon, a fictional concept This page lists people with the surname Faloon....
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culture, and much more cynically, Kurt Vonnegut had coined the term granfalloon to refer to a group which claims to have a common purpose but is actually...
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screenplays with his producer, Laura Boersma. Muller and Boersma currently run Granfalloon Productions, the award-winning Santa Monica production company, specializing...
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