Cat’s Cradle: Chapter 36 Summary & Analysis

John explains to the reader that, while he was on his trip to Ilium, he let his room out to a “poor poet named Sherman Krebbs.” When he returned from Ilium, he found his couch had been burned, his cat killed, and the rest of the apartment vandalized. John speculates that Sherman was part of his karass, serving as “wrang-wrang”—“a person who steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line.”