John starts chapter thirty-six talking about his trip to Ilium, New York and how he let a poor man named Sherman Krebbs have his apartment in New York for no cost at all. John tells us that his second wife left him because he was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with. After telling us this interesting fact about his second wife, he brings up Sherman Krebbs again. He says he is actually not a close friend of his and he met him at a cocktail party where he told John that he has a Chairman of Poets and Painters for Immediate Nuclear War. Sherman asked for somewhere to live, and it didn’t have to be bomb proof, so John thought he was qualified so he let Sherman stay in his apartment. When John returned to his apartment from his trip …show more content…
Krebbs ran up about three hundred dollars’ worth of long distance calls, set his couch on fire in five different places, killed his cat and avocado tree, and tore the door off of his medicine cabinet. He sensed that Krebbs was in his karass even though he never saw the man as he disappeared. He said that Krebbs was a wrang-wrang and according to Bokonon, is a person who leads people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line. John says on Sunday of that week, he figured out that Franklin Hoenikker was alive. He said the news of Franklin still being alive was in a special section of the New York Sunday Times. John found an ad for San Lorenzo, a tiny country that stood as a republic. The advertisement showed a young woman by the name of Mona Aamons Monzano, this girl was actually adopted by the controller of the country. John immediately figured out that he had romantic feelings towards this girl as he described her as “brown as chocolate” and said her hair was like golden flax. There was a picture in this advertisement, it was the leader of the country and standing next to him was the Minister of Science and Progress, twenty-six-year-old Major General Franklin Hoenikker. John then decides to go on a trip to this small island,