Union of Youth

This Monday the 28th at 5:00pm Book Club will be handing out free copies of Joseph Heller’s anti-war classic novel Catch-22. This is one of the most important novels to come along in the past 50 years (and a personal favorite of mine). Here is a snippet of the novel to give you a little taste of what this novel is like.

Who’s ‘they’?” Clevenger wanted to know. “Who, specifically, is trying to murder you?”
“Every one of them,” Yossarian told him.
“Every one of whom?”
“Every one of whom do you think?”
“I haven’t any idea.”
“Then how do you know they aren’t?”
“Then why are they shooting at me?”
“They’re shooting at everyone.”
“And what difference does that make?”
“I’m not going to argue with you,” Clevenger decided, “you don’t know who you hate.”
“Whoever is trying to poison me.”
“Nobody is trying to poison you.”
“They poisoned my food twice, didn’t they? Didn’t they put poison in my food at Ferrara and during the Great Big Siege of Bologna?”
“They put poison in everybody’s food,” Clevenger explained.
“And what difference does that make?”