#catch 22 book

[memoriesofthingspast]

calvin & hobbes & joseph heller & yossarian & doc &&& walk take tea together 🫖☕️🍵🧋

⚠️⛔️?🌅🦊

[supercupcakecollector-love]

My favorite media type seems to be anti war stories that have the most hilarious highs and incredible characters and dialogue but also the most depressing lows showing that absolute horrors of the worst of humanity with biting satire to hold those two together and a sprinkle of misogyny for bad measure

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

[t00thpasteface]

amore mio, we need to pack up and go...

[stvrmaker]

Gabriels bookshelf, but with my own editions and copies of the books 🫶🏻⭐️ Thanks for my pals @ineffable-detective-agency for helping me come up with some more fun easter eggs to add in 😊💖

[mushroommans-cache]

Where my Catch-22 sufferers at

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[spocks-evil-godmother]

Why don't we talk about Yossarian more? He is like the most Tumblr user literary character of all time. He finds fun little ways (faking an illness) to get out of doing his job. He makes blackout posts using the outgoing letters of other soldiers. He hates war but finds everyone he knows oddly compelling. He has a weird homosocial thing going on with a chaplain. He likes hornyposting on main but still finds sex complicated. He's haunted by the horrors, even.

[meteorologears]

found this article that interviewed the guy who wrote the hulu c22 miniseries adaptation and shaking my head... you dont get it... you do not get it... apparently he read it in english class--what grade did you get on that final essay?

like here. going from taking the premise of the nonlinear narrative--which is very intentional on Heller's part! Heller of course is showing the absurdity but also the mental degradation from Yossarian's perspective as his world becomes warped by the trauma of Snowden's death. by taking this away (deliberately!) i would argue that it does not tell a better story and very much detracts from the thematic arguments Heller was trying to make. it's just a truly baffling perspective. additionally, i feel like a base understanding of the intention of the nonlinear narrative (whether you like it or not) is quintessential to understanding Heller's premise.

or this!! yes, it is just a sentence--but it's important to the narrative to be like that. Yossarian's not even sure he's dead, just that he's gone. It allows the callback at the end with Yossarian and the chaplain discussing the whole "they got my pals" thing, and insisting that Clev is one of his pals--and expressing hope that he may be alive. Drawing out his death wouldn't have the same narrative draw or importance to it. the article goes on to then explain that it felt it was more narratively powerful to have Yossarian watch Clev's plane disappear in the cloud--which again, isn't the same thing Heller intended. Having a conclusive disappearance that is visible to the main character vs having an indeterminate disappearance where the main character can't be certain of what happened matters! Especially in a book like this!

[litsnaps]

[thelatecaptainpierce]

wild that the tv show m*a*s*h is the best adaptation of catch-22 despite not being an adaptation of catch-22

[lalaloobzy]

We need to go back to dealing with our trauma like early-mid 20th century male authors that fought in WWI or WWII

(by writing an epic novel hiding the trauma behind metaphors/fantasy/absurdism and characters that are a little insane)

[have-you-read]

[t00thpasteface]

i can't stand watching explicit, organ-ripping, eyeball-popping gore in movies/tv/animation, and i can only tolerate it in games if it has unrealistic graphics/physics, but if i'm reading a BOOK, i want to feel like if i open the pages and flip it upside down it'll just start pouring out blood and mangled meat like an overturned bucket of nickelodeon slime

[quotespile]

What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[wellntruly]

Have decided to really sink back into Catch-22 over the next few days and spend the weekend unwell, and have been quickly confronted with how it now means a great new deal to me that poor Major Major Major looks like a pale impression of Henry Fonda