Wampeter

In the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, a wampeter is an object which is the focus of a karass; that is, the lives of many otherwise unrelated people are centered around a wampeter (e.g., the Holy Grail). A karass will always have exactly two wampeters: one waxing, one waning. It first appears in the text with a definition on page 52 of the 1998 printing by Dell Publishing.

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