Most obviously, Cat's Cradle uses the Book of Jonah and Moby-Dick (1851).
This levianthic motif is broadened by references to Hobbes and in descriptions of the landscape — the highest mountain in San Lorenzo looks like a "blue whale." Some critics have compared the novel to prophetic works such as Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell.....
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