#catchllection

I guess the thing that's so insane to me about the chaplain/korn interactions is the use of language. A lot of this language is the same kind of stuff you'd see in a traditionally intimate or romantic scene--'managed to reply', 'eyes glinted keenly with a private and satisfying mischief', 'enchanted with his own intuition. He laughed' like. From a writing standpoint, it's this juxtaposition of a highly psychologically manipulative interaction with language usually used in an intimate context. But from a reader standpoint it just winds up seeming like korn is bullying the chaplain and both of them are enjoying at least some part of that. Which is honestly very exhausting.

Milo Minderbinder, capitalism incarnate, is so good because even interpersonal interactions have to be justified monetarily to him. What I mean by this is in any of the Milo chapters, Yossarian would have had an infinitely better chance convincing Milo to do stuff for him if he phrased it in terms of profit for milo. i'll elaborate in a sec hold on

Dear 3 people on here who are following my amnesia novel updates--i've put up two new chapters! Tiempo Pa' Olvidar - Chapter 10 - endlesshour - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller [Archive of Our Own]

Not to talk more about the clevinger mcwatt tent but i think they would be capable of hosting the worst/best game nights in there. Yossarian is def their mutual friend and gets invited. They both have crushes on him anyway. Maybe Nately? But I think other than that, each of them would invite someone who would get on the other's nerves for some reason. They could invite Milo and play monopoly, which would quickly go from "haha he's so good at this game isn't that funny" to "i think we need to burn the tent down with him inside unless he lets us buy back the railroads"