5/7/2023 0 Comments Catch 22 by joseph heller![]() ![]() ![]() All he had to do was ask and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs. There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning. ![]() Two years later he was sent to Italy, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. He sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. Even as a child, he loved to write at the age of eleven, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland. Joseph Heller was the son of poor Jewish parents from Russia. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]()
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