Cat’s Cradle: Chapter 69 Summary & Analysis

John, Hazel, and Crosby arrive at the Casa Mona hotel, which has no previous guests in its guestbook. A white man is working on a “huge mosaic” of Mona. Crosby talks to him, concluding that he is a “pissant.” John goes up to talk to the man, asking if he is an American; he is. The man is sarcastic in the exchange. He calls Frank Hoenikker a “piece of shit.”  He reveals that he once wrote a book—this is the book John has been reading on the plane. The man is Philip Castle.