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Meaning of "duprass"

I've GOOGLED around, and can't get a real feel for what that word means.
How would it be pronounced?
Thank you.. Lee Carkenord
  

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[nq:1]I've GOOGLED around, and can't get a real feel for what that word means. How would it be pronounced? Thank you..

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  • [nq:1]I've GOOGLED around, and can't get a real feel for what that word means.
  • How would it be pronounced?
  • Thank you..
  • org/wiki/BokononAccording to that site, "A karass is a group of people who, unbeknownst to them, are collectively doing ***'s will.
  • " According to other Web sites, a "duprass" is a karass of two.
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[nq:1]I've GOOGLED around, and can't get a real feel for what that word means. How would it be pronounced? Thank you.. Lee Carkenord[/nq]
It's a term from a fictional religion created by Kurt Vonnegut for his novel *Cat's Cradle.* See the Wikipedia article at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BokononAccording
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[nq:1]I've GOOGLED around, and can't get a real feel for what that word means.[/nq]
Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle (1963, highly
recommended) describes the end of the world owing
to a scientific catastrophe. The subplot describes a new (persecuted) religion called Bokononism with its own rituals and language. A Kuprass is a Bokonist community (real but immanent in the word, i.e. th
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