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Posts tagged Joseph Heller
Mediocre
Jun 10th
Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitable stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest,… More ...
You Can’t Go Home
Jun 5th
‘No, you can’t go home,’ ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen admitted. ‘Forty missions is all you have to fly as far as Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters in concerned.’ Yossarian was jubilant. ‘Then I can go home, right? I’ve got forty-eight.’ ‘No, you can’t go home,’ ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen corrected him. ‘Are you crazy or something?’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Catch-22.’ ‘Catch-22?’… More ...
Catch-22
Jun 4th
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and he could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he… More ...
Live Forever or Die in the Attempt
Jun 3rd
Havermeyer was a lead bombarbier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. -… More ...