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@devilfumoCatch-22

QuoteApr 6, 2025

—What makes you so sure Major Major is a communist? —You never heard him denying it until we began accusing him, did you? And you don't see him signing any of our loyalty oaths. —You aren't letting him sign any. —Of course not, Captain Black explained. —That…

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QuoteJul 27, 2024

Joseph Heller

The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth,…

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ReviewJul 14, 2024

Catch-22

No subsequent read will match the hyperactive high of inhaling Catch-22 as a teenager, but on this third time round I was surprised how well it held up. I dug more then ever Heller's glitched, fragmentary plotting, the way incidents sprout from each other unp…

@yarbCatch-22

ReviewJul 12, 2024

I think about this book at least once a week at work

Catch-22 uniquely catches the surreality of the odd mixture of personalities that wander through the military. I work in the military industrial complex and Catch-22is the only thing surreal enough I have encountered to properly reflect working closely with t…

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