I like Yossarian for his weakness as much as anything. Most literary anti heroes actually do and say pretty much the same things. Not Yossarian. He is as Coluber describes him and will outlast the others.
There is a sequel to "Catch 22." I haven't read it, and I like the unresolved ending of the original book and movie, but I would be interested in hearing about the book. Has anybody here read it?
never heard of it. Who would be the author?
For the prototypical mind-numbingly clueless career officer. there is no one like Lt. (later Gen.) Scheisskopf. His name says it all.
It's a whole constellation of perfectly drawn chracters.
Here's the sequel:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684804506/104-4681502-1011108?v=glance
I plan to buy that one when I get the opportunity. Who knows; I might even like it.
If ever we need a Yossarian it's now.
Recent events make me feel that, despite attempts to mature into more intelligent political philosophies, I am still the hopeful naive American kid (Garfunkel), lucky to have the wise old Italian to hold ground and speak sense.
@edgarblythe,
I may have read it, I'll check my shelves for that title.
“Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch 22
“The night was filled with horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts, like a victim through a prison full of thieves. What a welcome sight a leper must have been!”
― Joseph Heller
@edgarblythe,
More like Mother Teresa with no sick or hungry to heal and feed.
But yeah, good thought.
@edgarblythe,
Most excellent scene indeed!
The image of an undead brain coming back to live again is the stuff of science fiction. (This sentence is the ridiculous leadoff in the article, but the rest of it is worth a read)
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/zombie-pigs-brainex/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1jPwWKJD8CLwpLyWbZNR6nc0gLo0d6Famw1Ad7KtDwPabO5coTxw-n_08#Echobox=1646438975
Yale scientists restore cellular function in 32 dead pig brains
