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...walked down 44th Street wondering if a Harvard Club could possibly be anything but a granfalloon after all. As Vonnegut says, a granfalloon is "A seeming team that is meaningless in terms of the way God gets things done"-like all the people from Indiana or the International Order of Odd Fellows or Leverett House. And if the Harvard Club were a granfalloon, would I be able to recognize it, let alone photograph it. "If you wish to study a granfalloon," continues Vonnegut, "just remove the skin of a toy balloon...
...contemporary novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, uses with frequency a similar expression: "So it goes...
...Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut...
...Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut...
...Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut...