Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Start from a classic and follow its line, one work at a time, across the map.
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What it draws on
Herman Melville, AD 1851
Vonnegut's narrator begins 'Call me Jonah', turning Melville's 'Call me Ishmael' toward another man swallowed by a great fish, and by a fate he did not choose.
Source: Wikipedia, Cat's Cradle
“The narrator is a writer who claims his parents named him John but begins the book by stating "Call me Jonah," alluding to the first line of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ("Call me Ishmael"), offering a parallel between Moby-Dick and the biblical Jonah's interaction with the large fish.” Read it there
No later work in the atlas draws on Cat's Cradle yet.