Angie C’s Reviews > Catch-22 > Status Update

restarting and taking notes because I’ve literally forgotten everything I’ve read here from a month ago. so much better like this. now thinking of this in terms of The Absurd and that is quite nice -

“Hungry Joe was a throbbing, ragged mass of motile irritability. The steady ticking of a watch in a quiet room crashed like torture against his unshielded brain.”
“The nightmares appeared to Hungry Joe with celestial punctuality…”

War(time) is counted in missions, lacking objectivity or pattern or rationality… only a simple count, tick by tick… accumulating to nothing, leading nowhere.

“There was always sunshine, always a tiny sticking in the throat from the rarefied air.” (59)