[b]Joseph Heller
That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.[/b]
Some may well say that about me here. Not that I’d disagree.
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
Not to worry: No one ever does.
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
In other words, define “good”.
Hasn’t it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?
Yes, sir, it has.
Then why do you do it?
To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.
For philosophers of course it is intellectual impotence. Though it has little or nothing to do with women.
You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
You be one, I’ll be the other.
What the hell are you getting so upset about?’ he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of amusement. I thought you didn’t believe in God.
I don’t, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. But the God I don’t believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He’s not the mean and stupid God you make Him to be.
Yossarian laughed and turned her arms loose. Let’s have a little more religious freedom between us, he proposed obligingly. You don’t believe in the God you want to, and I won’t believe in the God I want to . Is that a deal?
Not many bases this doesn’t cover. Assuming of course I understand it.