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Posts tagged Catch-22
Go to Russia
Aug 13th
He was rocking the boat, Milo said, and Yossarian nodded once more. He was not a member of the team, Milo said. Yossarian nodded and listened to Milo tell him that the decent thing to do if he did not like the way Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn were running things was to to go More ...
Be Patient
Aug 12th
It was not their fault that they were young and cheerful, he reminded himself as he carried the swinging beam of his flashlight back through the darkness. He wished that he could be young and cheerful, too. And it wasn’t their fault that they were courageous, confident and carefree. He would just have to be More ...
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 ...
Ecclesiastical Aplomb
Jul 30th
In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure. He was painfully aware that he lacked the ecclesiastical aplomb and savoir-faire that enabled so many of his colleagues in other faiths and sects to get ahead. He was just not equipped to excel. – Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) More ...
A Victim of Anything But Circumstance
Jun 11th
History did not demand Yossarain’s premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But More ...