Catch-22: People in traps

People have to endure death

Just like their birth

Maturity is everything (Shakespeare, King Lear)

"Twenty-second Military Rule" became an inherent noun in Western culture, and it comes from this book, synonymous with black humor.

Jocelian escaped at the end, and long ago Orr realized the absurdity of the world in which they lived, and began to plan carefully, while Jocelian made his intention to leave after one death after another. He escapes the door, dodging the blade of Natley's prostitute, and the novel pulls down.

It is also at this moment that the characters in the novel come alive and well, the pain of life and death crushing humanity is strangely dissolved in the war, the luxury of supplies and wonderful sexual desires are satisfied during the landing, there is no sorrow of eating and not eating, only the joy of drinking in this day and getting drunk in tomorrow, and the sorrow of tomorrow and tomorrow.

Jocelian, Joe the Hungry Ghost, Natley, Orr and others are people who have seen the shadow of death, teammates who have been together day and night, and there will be no return at a certain time, and they are likely to be one of them. The novel describes a detail, the priest heard that someone crashed and died, he could not help but pray that the dead person would not be a friend he knew, but he thought that if it was not his friend, then there would be other young people dying, and he could not help but feel sad and guilty in his heart. This is the inevitability of war, death, and once war breaks out, death is an inevitable topic that will be mentioned. The novel also writes that a woman was at first very sad because of the news of her husband's death, and then when she received a large amount of pensions, funeral expenses, child support, etc., her mood became clearer and clearer, and after she had money, she dressed herself up, and found that the husbands of her friends flirted with her one after another. Eventually she moved elsewhere with her children. Death is an unbearable life for any family, but the author has written out this "special case", like accidentally throwing a small stone on the calm lake, which does not require a thousand guns to stir up ripples in people's hearts. How ridiculous, how ridiculous it is that even a fearsome death can make a better life for the family, how funny, the wife uses the money she got from her death to start a new life.

"Everything worth living for it," Natley said, "is worth dying for." ”

"And anything worth dying for it," replied the blasphemous old man, "certainly worth living for." ”

Immersed in the atmosphere created by the whole country for a long time, they think that they are heroes, patriots, and can give up their lives for this feeling, but in fact, they have hollowed out people's joys and sorrows, leaving behind not only fear but also hope for life.

Jocelian wanted to leave, saying he was going to live for himself.

Danny said, what if everyone thinks like you?

Jocelian didn't know it, but he still walked through the valley of death, carrying his staff forward.

The twenty-second military rule is a barrier that they are difficult to cross, day by day, day by day, flying after flying, "going back" is like a fine spider silk seen by people who fall into the hole in Buddhism, stretching out their hands to drag them to persevere, if they don't even extend their hands, they can only fall into hell.