For the things in life which make me glad I'm not dead yet.
Archive for August, 2003
Another Generation
Aug 9th
He could not make them understand that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted… More ...
No Complaints
Aug 8th
They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits. They laughed at everything. The called him ‘Yo-Yo’ jocularly and came in tipsy late at night and woke him up with their clumsy, bumping, giggling efforts to be quiet, then bombarded him with asinine shouts of… More ...
Change
Aug 6th
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him. – Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) More ...
A Normal, Lonely Adult Life
Aug 5th
Why couldn’t anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life? – Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) More ...
Very Friendly
Aug 4th
Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him, and no one ever said anything. – Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) More ...
Never Without Misery
Aug 1st
He was pinched perspiringly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never without hope. – Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) More ...