[b]Joseph Heller
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.[/b]
Cue [among others] Woody Allen. And, sure, on any given day, me.
…it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
Worse however are those who have an answer for everything.
The important thing is to keep them pledging, he explained to his cohorts. It doesn’t matter whether they mean it or not. That’s why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what ‘pledge’ and ‘allegiance’ mean.
Or keep them standing. And not just for the national anthem.
They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits.
Some truly get this and some truly don’t.
Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.
A dope. You know, like me.
It’s a real problem to decide whether it’s more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all.
On the other hand, isn’t that why you’re here?