En este espacio un grupo de siete amigos (ocho en realidad), que ha sufrido el paulatino y doloroso éxodo de tres de ellos (eran cuatro pero uno arrugó), se dan cita para compartir experiencias y acortar distancias.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Demencia absoluta...

--Yossarian looked at him soberly and tried another approach. "Is Orr crazy?"
"He sure is," Doc Daneeka said.
"Can you ground him?"
"I sure can but first he has to ask me to. That's part of the rule."
"Then why doesn't he ask you to?"
"Because he's crazy," Doc Daneeka said. "He has to be crazy to keep flying combat missions after all the close calls he's had. Sure I can ground Orr. But first he has to ask me to."
"That's all he has to do to be grounded?"
"That's all. Let him ask me."
"And then you can ground him?" Yossarian asked.
"No, then I can't ground him."
"You mean there's a catch?"
"Sure there is a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that 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, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of the clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka replied.--

4 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Best there is...

6:54 PM

 
Blogger Hungry Joe said...

Aunque suene mamon, es de los libros que mas me ha emocionado. Y me lo termine justo despues de mejorarme de mi enfermedad en India, en un bus camino a Pushkar.

Where's our catch? la libertad es un estado de equilibrio inestable... como la cuerda floja. Filo, ni yo me entiendo.

8:53 PM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

more missions....

3:14 PM

 
Blogger Hungry Joe said...

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

11:33 AM

 

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