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Who is your favorite character from Catch-22 ?

Mine is Major Major. The chapter named after him may be the funniest thing I've ever read.

>> No.5190067

Aarfy.

>> No.5190089

Dunbar

>> No.5190117

>>5190056
Yossarian and his neurotic breaks.

>> No.5190139

Nately's whore's kid sister.

>> No.5190715

I read that book less than two months ago and I've already forgotten enough about the story/characters that I can't answer your question. What is wrong with me?

>> No.5190735

>>5190715
Probably a brain tumor.

>> No.5190754

None. Because I don't read pleb American trash

>> No.5190761

>>5190754
Oh what country's pleb trash do you read?

>> No.5190776

Major Major is the one who is promoted and becomes a hermit who no one ever sees despite him being in his office, right?

if so, him

also General Scheisskopf

>> No.5190785

>>5190761
chad

>> No.5191601

Milo is my favorite character, but not the funniest. Aarfy is probably the funniest imo.

>> No.5191609

>>5191601
Milo is probably the most despicable character in the entire novel.

>> No.5191624

I liked the Chaplain
Though not the funniest of characters, I felt like I could relate to his struggles

>> No.5191648

Probably not worth its own thread, so I'll ask here:
have any of you read Closing Time and how does it compare to Catch 22?

>> No.5191664

>>5191648
i've read it
i liked it, but it's not as good. it's very uneven and it's not as funny (and often isn't trying to be)
it does have bits that i really loved

>> No.5191671

Among the funniest things I've ever read is the account of them drunk-crashing their Jeep on the way back from the officer's club. It's been awhile so I don't remember the characters involved but that was great.

>> No.5191677

>>5191664
I'll probably give it a read, I hear it revisits a lot of the original characters

>> No.5191713

Nately

;_;

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5191756

>>5190785
A name befitting a country mostly empty at the top, blond, teeming with Socially Transmitted Displaced-peoples from that whore Sudan, educationally-stunted, and holding a military worthy of playing at least as a Fullback (meanwhile joking around, exchanging homoerotic locker-room run-ins with, and generally resenting, quarterback Libya).

>> No.5191792

>>5190056
The Eternal City

>> No.5193424

>>5191609
I wouldn't argue that.

>> No.5194569

The indian chief

>> No.5194596

>>5190056
milo the mayor

>> No.5194597

>>5190056
the fucking chaplain

or doc

>> No.5195151

>>5190089

Mah Man!

>> No.5196532

The despicable old Italian man at the whorehouse.
He had everything figured out.

>> No.5196535

>>5196532
Or maybe Orr.

>> No.5196555

>>5193424

how can you not

>> No.5198429

>>5190056
Dunbar, probably.

>> No.5199738

>ctrl-f "wintergreen"

Y'all niggas gay

>> No.5199887

>>5190056
Yossarian lives motherfucker

>> No.5199941

I liked the Chaplain, but probably because he reminded me of my 10th grade Comparative Religion teacher, who was a former 90s stoner turned Mennonite with a secret crush on Reagan. He was a really nice guy, I should tell him of the comparison if I'm ever at the school again.

>> No.5199958

>tfw Snowden
;___________________;

>> No.5201790

flies in muh eyes nigghu

>> No.5202192

dunbar

'Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This
long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of
fresh air. Today you're an old man.'
'Old?' asked Clevinger with surprise. 'What are you talking about?'
'Old.'
'I'm not old.'
'You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at
your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere
was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a
small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too
soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow time down?'
Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.
'Well, maybe it is true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does
have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants
one?'
'I do,' Dunbar told him.
'Why?' Clevinger asked.
'What else is there?'

>> No.5202209

>>5202192
Capt. Nately: Don't you have any principles?

Old man in whorehouse: Of course not!

Capt. Nately: No morality?

Old man in whorehouse: I'm a very moral man, and Italy is a very moral country. That's why we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated.

Capt. Nately: You talk like a madman.

Old man in whorehouse: But I live like a sane one. I was a fascist when Mussolini was on top. Now that he has been deposed, I am anti-fascist. When the Germans were here, I was fanatically pro-German. Now I'm fanatically pro-American. You'll find no more loyal partisan in all of Italy than myself.

Capt. Nately: You're a shameful opportunist! What you don't understand is that it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Old man in whorehouse: You have it backwards. It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees. I know.

Capt. Nately: How do you know?

Old man in whorehouse: Because I am 107-years-old. How old are you?

Capt. Nately: I'll be 20 in January.

Old man in whorehouse: If you live.

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I really should take the time to read this again...