Yes, poor Major Major (who thought he was named Caleb until he started school), and Doc Daneeka who got killed when an airplane he wasn't on crashed and he couldn't prove he was alive, and Dunbar who was disappeared, and Clevinger and Orr-who put crabapples in his cheeks, and A. T. Tappman, Chaplain, USA, and the guy (what was his name?) who dreamed that Doc Daneeka's cat was going to suffocate him by going to sleep on his face--and it did, and "that shithead," Lt. (later Gen.) Sheisskopf who wanted to have parades on Pianosa (and had earlier wanted to attatch men's forearms to their hips with stainless steel pegs and wire so they wouldn't swing their arms when they marched...and Chief Whitehorse and Snowdon spilling his guts all over the back of the B-25 showing Yossarian that we are all meat and the dead man in Dunbar's tent and the patient in the hospital wrapped up like a mummy who had an IV attatched to a bottle which when empty was replaced with the bottle into which the patient's waste fluids drained...

An incredibly rich, inventive novel, totally original, totally hysterical (in both senses of the word). Possibly a curse to Joseph Heller, because whatever he wrote afterwards wasn't Catch-22. It's a hell of a catch, that Catch-22.

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