Although not obviously connected to Cat's Cradle, this Gary Larson cartoon would fit well into the Books of Bokonon, as I see it. The reader of the cartoon senses the absurdity of this man being angry about a chair when he is stranded on a desolate, minuscule island. The reader laughs at the skewed priorities of the man, but the reader must also realize, when considering Cat's Cradle, that he is the man. In an inherently meaningless world, we humans must create all of the significance in our lives, lying that this or that is important. We can deride our need to impose meaning on the absurd, and our tendency to imbue with meaning particularly ridiculous objects (like the chair in this cartoon); however, I think Vonnegut would argue that lying meaning into existence is necessary to keep us happy, or at least alive, and so, while we laugh at this cartoon, we ought to accept that chairs and God and the Books of Bokonon are required by human nature. We can laugh at ourselves, but we must also be ourselves.