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The paradox is presented as the trap that confined members of the US Air Force. The 'catch' was this: It was effectively impossible to be exempted from highly dangerous bombing missions on the grounds of insanity. [phrases.org.uk]

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[…] agent, no agent unless you've worked—Mary Murphy also : the circumstance or rule that denies a solution 2 a : an illogical, unreasonable, or senseless situation b : a measure or policy whose effect is the opposite of what was intended c : a situation presenting [merriam-webster.com]

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• Falling

  His friend Nately falls in love with a whore from Rome and woos her constantly, despite her continued indifference and the fact that her kid sister constantly interferes with their romantic rendezvous. [sparknotes.com]

  The maid with the lime-colored panties A woman with whom Yossarian paradoxically falls in love, because she is the only woman that Yossarian can't possibly fall in love with. [en.wikipedia.org]

  […] flipping through a majestic parabola in slow motion, with one side representing laugh-out-loud comedy and the other an intense exploration of the terrors of war, making its way to the ground with the weight of someone’s fate resting on whichever side it falls [bookishelf.com]

  Her family were celebrating a birthday party and were delighted to see aircraft fly over their town, until the bombs began to fall. [iwm.org.uk]

• Nightmare

  Do you have horrific nightmares at the thought of flying no more missions? You can try, but you won't succeed because of Catch-22. When you read this novel, you'll quickly discover that such a catch can only exist because everyone is mad. [amazon.co.uk]

  He is the only pilot who consistently finished the required number of missions (but was forced to continue flying as his paperwork was always delayed until the flight limit was elevated) and has screaming nightmares until he's ordered back onto combat [en.wikipedia.org]

• Pain

  Nichols has been at pains to put himself on the fashionable side and make a juicy humanist statement against war, not realizing that for Heller World War II was symbolic of a much larger disease: life. Yossarian is afraid of dying, yes. [rogerebert.com]

• Crying

  The girls were crying. ‘Did we do anything wrong?’ they said. The men said no and pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. ‘Then why are you chasing us out?’ the girls said. ‘Catch-22,’ the men said. [inews.co.uk]

  The girls were crying. 'Did we do anything wrong?' they said. The men said no and pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. 'Then why are you chasing us out?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Dentist

  […] alludes to Joseph McCarthy's questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.[9] Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 [en.wikipedia.org]

• Pneumonia

  During the Siege of Bologna, he decides that he will eventually die of pneumonia, which he ultimately does. Ex-P.F.C. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Diarrhea

  He was demoted for purposely poisoning sweet potatoes with soap chips, giving the squadron diarrhea, which he did at Yossarian's request. Snark is now referred to as Milo's "first chef". Dr. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Jaundice

  He comes to despair of ever getting home and is greatly relieved when he is sent to the hospital for a condition that is almost jaundice. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Quickening

  …"[6] Later Heller writes of Yossarian wandering through a war-torn Italian city (Chapter 39): "Yossarian quickened his pace to get away, almost ran. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Suggestibility

  Heller's editor, Robert Gottlieb, suggested a title change: 22 was "funnier than 18." So, the next time you lock your car keys inside your car, thank Joseph Heller. [refinery29.com]

  —Marta Zaraska, Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023 If, as Klein suggests more soundly, addressing those tensions requires a drastic program of democratic reforms, then the true remedy for polarization is a bit of a catch-22. [merriam-webster.com]

  These boys, as the title suggests, are in a classic catch-22. That's a term we use to describe a situation in which there is no way out, and—what do you know?—it came from this very novel. [shmoop.com]

  Suggest for everyone beyond 18. READ MORE Rajiv Ojha Certified Buyer, New Delhi Jun, 2014 5 Catch 22 Yosarian Lives! It feels a bit pompous to review a classic like Catch 22... [flipkart.com]

• Fear

  Catch-22 was originally entitled Catch-18, but the title was altered just before publication; another novel, Mila 18 by Leon Uris, had been recently released, and publisher feared readers would be confused. [litcharts.com]

  Themes[edit] Paradox[edit] Yossarian comes to fear his commanding officers more than he fears the Germans attempting to shoot him down and he feels that "they" are "out to get him". [en.wikipedia.org]

• Anger

  Yossarian demanded, stamping about in anger and distress. “Didn’t you even make them read it?” “They don’t have to show us Catch-22,” the old woman answered. “The law says they don’t have to.” “What law says they don’t have to?” “Catch-22.” [inews.co.uk]

  Yossarian demanded, stamping about in anger and distress. "Didn't you even make them read it?" "They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to." "What law says they don't have to?" "Catch-22." [en.wikipedia.org]

• Distractibility

  No, Nichols avoids those hard things altogether, and tries to distract us with razzle-dazzle while he sneaks in a couple of easy messages instead. Pushovers. In the first half of the movie, he tells us officers are dumb and war doesn't make sense. [rogerebert.com]

  No, Nichols avoids those hard things altogether, and tries to distract us with razzle-dazzle while he sneaks in a couple of easy messages instead. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Confusion

  He's changed the rules; he made us laugh for the first hour, and now he throws in broken bodies and intestines so that we'll be repelled, and confuse our repulsion with a message. [rogerebert.com]

  Catch-22 was originally entitled Catch-18, but the title was altered just before publication; another novel, Mila 18 by Leon Uris, had been recently released, and publisher feared readers would be confused. [litcharts.com]

  The novel marshals and exposes farcical bureaucracy, logistical confusion and a freak show of officers as dangerous as they are absurd: Major Major, the reclusive squadron commander who is bullied by his own men; the sadistic Colonel Cathcart, who keeps [foliosociety.com]

  Even generally favorable reviews complained that the novel was too long, repetitious, and confusing. The worst was yet to come. Despite a gestation period of more than a year, Daedalus, Vol. 92 (Winter 1963) showed no mercy. [cliffsnotes.com]

• Forgetful

  But I forget. The general’s exec finds me, says the old man wants to talk. I’m eager to prove my worth as a staff officer. For 30 minutes he harangues me, a lowly major, for not doing enough in Afghanistan. [coffeeordie.com]

  He generally forgets his moral duty as a physician except in the most extreme of circumstances. Doc Daneeka resents the military, both for drafting him and for finding out he lied on his drafting papers. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Screaming

  He is the only pilot who consistently finished the required number of missions (but was forced to continue flying as his paperwork was always delayed until the flight limit was elevated) and has screaming nightmares until he's ordered back onto combat [en.wikipedia.org]

• Clumsiness

  That's the kind of God you people talk about—a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Candida

  The next morning, at work, I wrote out the whole first chapter and sent it to my agent, Candida Donadio, who sold it to New World Writing. [simonandschuster.com]

  When he was one-third done with the work, his agent, Candida Donadio, sent it to publishers. [en.wikipedia.org]

Alternative treatments should be subjected to scientific testing no less rigorous than that required for conventional treatments.[10] This definition has been described by Robert L. [en.wikipedia.org]

In fact, by overcoming the odds of the publishing business, Heller fulfilled Starnes’s early prognosis for literary immortality: “Yossarian will, I think, live a very long time.” JONATHAN R. [simonandschuster.com]

Catch-22's, Catch-22s. 1. a frustrating situation in which one is trapped by contradictory regulations or conditions. 2. any illogical or paradoxical problem or situation; dilemma. 3. a condition, regulation, etc., preventing the resolution of a problem [thefreedictionary.com]

Or, as Cambridge Dictionary puts it, it's "an impossible situation where you are prevented from doing one thing until you have done another thing that you cannot do until you have done the first thing." [refinery29.com]

The term is introduced to describe the apparent loophole, or catch, that prevents a pilot from asking for a mental evaluation to determine if he’s fit to fly: There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own [merriam-webster.com]

Black is a paranoid anti-Communist and pressures all the men to take loyalty oaths, but out of personal spite prevents Major Major from taking one. [en.wikipedia.org]