Additionally, he cannot obtain a Section 8 by pretending to be insane because his superiors see his desire to get out of flying as a sign of perfect sanity ( hence Catch-22 ).

In typical Catch-22 satirical fashion, Minderbinder's business is incredibly profitable, with the single exception of his decision to buy all Egyptian cotton in existence, which he cannot unload afterwards ( except to other entrepreneurs, who sell the cotton back to him because he simply ordered all Egyptian cotton ) and tries to dispose of by coating it with chocolate and serving it in the mess hall.

Yossarian comes to realize that Catch-22 does not actually exist, but because the powers that be claim it does, and the world believes it does, it nevertheless has potent effects.

Heller wanted to be a writer from an early age ; his experiences as a bombardier during World War II inspired Catch-22 ; Heller later said that he " never had a bad officer.

" Eventually the title came to be Catch-22, which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of déjà vu-like events common in the novel.

Set in the late 1920s in China, this was an early entry in a series of Vietnam war era films ( Catch-22, M * A * S * H ), which, though set in other periods of wartime, nevertheless sounded with its depictions of gunboat diplomacy what would come to be recognized as timeless themes.

It can be also considered a paradoxical " Catch-22 " situation.

“ Catch-22 ” refers to a regulation that states an airman ’ s request to be relieved from flight duty can only be granted if he is judged to be insane.

* Catch-22: a logical paradox arising from a situation in which an individual needs something that can only be acquired by not being in that very situation

" Aravamudan himself stressed the satiric nature of the work and held that while it and Midnight's Children may appear to be more " comic epic ", " clearly those works are highly satirical " in a similar vein of postmodern satire pioneered by Joseph Heller in Catch-22.

It meant that if the Executive Council resigned after being defeated, and the Dáil could not agree on a new Council, a Catch-22 situation might be created, in which the inability of the Dáil to choose a cabinet could not be resolved by the holding of a general election.

The “ Catch-22 ” is that you can only be grounded if you request it, but by requesting it you are considered sane.

* A situation in which the player has to accomplish two mutually dependent tasks each of which must be completed before the other or that are mutually exclusive ( a Catch-22 )

Therefore, Catch-22 ensures that no pilot can ever be grounded for being insane even if he is.

Through courts-martial for going AWOL, he would be busted in rank back to private, but Catch-22 limited the number of times he could do this before being sent to the stockade.

In Chapter 39 an old woman relates that soldiers had claimed that the actual text of Catch-22 did not have to be revealed when carrying out orders related to it, meaning that " they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

" This exchange convinces Yossarian that Catch-22 does not even exist, but because the powers that be claim it does, and the world believes it does, it nevertheless has potent effects.

" A reviewer of Catch-22 found this " flawless " logical indulgence by the commanding colonels to be comparable to Heller's parody of Charles Erwin Wilson's statement, often paraphrased as, " What's good for General Motors is good for the country ".

Their last name appears to be a nod to Joseph Heller's Catch-22, featuring a man named Yossarian ( and whose first name is later revealed to be John ).

One commentator of Catch-22 recognized that " many early audiences liked the book for just the same reasons that caused others to hate it " The book had a cult following though, especially among teenagers and college students.

J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is probably the most famous and successful anti-romance, though there are many others, including Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, " Araby " by James Joyce and Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

Dr. Stubbs decides to try to confront the rules of Catch-22 by grounding any soldier who asks.

Doc Daneeka uses Orr as an example, when explaining the grounding of the insane and “ Catch-22 ”.

In chapter 6, Yossarian is told that Catch-22 requires him to do anything his commanding officer tells him to do, regardless of whether these orders contradict orders from the officer's superiors.

Other forms of Catch-22 are invoked throughout the novel to justify various bureaucratic actions.

Minderbinder, unlike most characters in Catch-22, who are only the subject of one chapter, is the subject of three chapters ( Chapter 22: " Milo the Mayor ", Chapter 24: " Milo " and Chapter 35: " Milo the Militant ").

Doc Daneeka finally falls foul of the bureaucratic processes that are central to Catch-22: when McWatt flies his plane into the mountain after he accidentally kills Kid Sampson, Doc Daneeka's name is on McWatt's crew manifest.

He is an emulation of Holden, as he is always reading books that are above his grade level, such as Catch-22, The Old Man and the Sea, and Tourist Season.

* Officer Luciana, Esmé's disguised name, is probably a reference to a character in Catch-22, a novel by Joseph Heller, who tears up an address and can never find it again, just as Esmé tears the Quagmire notebooks and they are never fully reassembled.

The feelings of helplessness and persecution in Catch-22 are very strong in Pynchon and in Cat's Cradle.

He asks, " You're not against Catch-22, are you?

In Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22, the protagonist Yossarian laments the death of his friend Snowden, saying, " Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

Investigators are characters in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.

There are various approaches to addressing this Catch-22, all of which are compromises ( e. g., desktop software deployment, domain-wide password reset account, telephone access, visiting a neighbour, continuing to call the help desk, etc.

The book has two stories that are interwoven throughout – that of Yossarian in the last stages of his life, and that of Sammy Singer and Lew Rabinowitz, two men from Coney Island who also fought in World War II ( the Sammy Singer character makes a brief appearance in Catch-22 as the tailgunner aboard Yossarian's bomber who kept waking up and fainting when he saw Yossarian trying to attend to the wounds of Snowden ).

They appeared together in the short-lived television series He & She ( 1967 – 68 ) and the film Catch-22 ( 1970 ).

" Another character explains: " Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

Later in the book the old woman in Rome explains that Catch-22 means " They can do whatever they want to do.

* November 10 – Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller.

* Corporal Snark, a minor character in Catch-22 ( 1961 ) by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is a satirical and historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller.

The phrase " Catch-22 ", " a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule ," has entered the English language.

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

At one point, victims of harassment by military police quote the MPs ' explanation of one of Catch-22's provisions: " Catch-22 states that agents enforcing Catch-22 need not prove that Catch-22 actually contains whatever provision the accused violator is accused of violating.

Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.

* The Modern Library ranked Catch-22 as the 7th ( by review panel ) and 12th ( by public ) greatest English language novel of the twentieth century.

* The Big Read by the BBC ranked Catch-22 as number 11 on a web poll of the UK's best-loved book.

* Catch-22 was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols.

* Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 ( 1961 ) alludes to the poem in the chapter " Havermyer ": " the open-air movie theater in which — for the daily amusement of the dying — ignorant armies clashed by night on a collapsible screen.

* Catch-22, the 1961 novel ( and its 1970 film version ) by Joseph Heller, which consequently gave rise to the expression " catch-22 "

Catch-22 is a post-modernist satirical novel by Joseph Heller published in 1961.

* Catch-22 ( logic ), a type of logical conundrum illustrated by situations in the novel Catch-22

In the 1970 film adaptation of Catch-22 the Minderbinder character is portrayed by Jon Voight.

* Nurse Cramer, character in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller