That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

What do you do when it rains?" The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.