Posts Tagged ‘Catch 22’

He drifted into yet another town, a stranger whose eyes belied his true age. He had stopped ageing otherwise since he embraced the life he really wanted to live. Eons had passed in but a few years and time had left him by the wayside. As usual he made his way into the local tavern […]

My favourite novel of all time.Comi-tragic is defined by works such as these.There are so many lines haunting in their beauty and hilarious in a poignant way that make this novel one of the best ever written. Of all the novels with their theme as indictment of war I believe nothing captures the slaughter of […]

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, […]