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Closing time heller5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘Clevinger was dead,’ we read about a hundred pages after the account of his argument with Yossarian. It is an anti-war novel, but only because war is such a help to what wants to do us in. In fact, it appears in Catch-22, that supposed anti-war novel. did’), and might well appear in Heller’s terminal new book. There were fertile red meadows of epithelial tissue to catch and coddle a cancer cell.’ The list goes on for quite a while (‘There were so many diseases that it took a truly diseased mind to even think about them as often as he. There was Hodgkin’s disease, leukaemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. There were kidneys, nerve sheaths and corpuscles. ‘There were lymph glands that might do him in. This is a conversation between servicemen in wartime, but there are other mortal risks, like accident, riot, natural catastrophe, and disease. ‘They’re shooting at everyone,’ Clevinger answered. ![]() ‘Then why are they shooting at me?’ Yossarian asked. ‘No one’s trying to kill you,’ Clevinger cried. ‘They’re trying to kill me,’ Yossarian told him calmly. But there is a logic that resists such logic, and one of its masters is Joseph H., author of Catch 22 and other objections to the absurdity of dying. thinks towards the end of The Trial, ‘but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.’ He is wrong, of course, since he is killed within a page by the brutal logic of the novel he is in. ‘Logic is doubtless unshakeable,’ Joseph K. ![]()
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