“Flying in the Face of Sanity” Catch-22 was written by Joseph Heller, and is about a WWII oddball bombardier named Yossarian. The novel was brilliantly written. The depths of the various characters were unparallel to those of any other author. There are thirty-nine characters in the book and every one was unique. Heller must have been a genius to keep all of them straight. This reader struggled to keep track of them and had to …showed first 75 words of 934 total…

…showed last 75 words of 934 total…big picture.” Yossarian rejected the advice with a skeptical shake of his head. “When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.” …”From now on I’m thinking only of me.” “But Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.” “Then I’d be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn’t I?”