Catch-22

22 love most is precisely what, from the Flaubertian

‘Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?’

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

McWatt was the craziest combat man of them all probably, because he was perfectly sane and still did not mind the war.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition.

Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.

He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning.

History did not demand Yossarian’s premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it.