Cat’s Cradle: Chapter 29 Summary & Analysis

John takes a cab to the cemetery where Dr. Hoenikker is buried, hoping to take a picture of the tomb (potentially as an image for the cover of his book). The cemetery custodian tells him that he can’t miss it: “the marker was an alabaster phallus twenty feet high and three feet thick.” John calls it “a suitable memorial to a father of the atom bomb.” Wiping away some sleet from the monument, John notices that it reads “MOTHER.”