Sunday, October 9, 2011

What's the Catch? JUST ONE CATCH A Biography Of Joseph Heller By Tracy Daugherty Catch-22 Explained

http://www.amazon.com/Just-One-Catch-Biography-Joseph/dp/0312596855/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318178675&sr=1-1
Click on the link above to read some pages from this book and read some reviews of the book.
Click on the page above to enlarge it and read a page from the book that explains Catch-22.  What it was and what it is. Also see below from Catch-22.

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.


"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller