"know, but I decided to ignore it."" There is a man mentioned by Lew named ""Vonnegut"", whom he met while in Dresden. This is a reference to Kurt Vonnegut's experiences in the Bombing of Dresden and his book ""Slaughterhouse-Five"". A character named Joey Heller is also mentioned who, like the author, was a bombardier during the Second World War and suffers with Guillain–Barré syndrome. Closing Time (novel) Closing Time is a 1994 novel by Joseph Heller, written as a sequel to the popular ""Catch-22"". It takes place in New York City in the 1990s, and revisits some characters of the"
"No Laughing Matter (book) No Laughing Matter is a 1986 book co-authored by Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel. The book covers Heller's struggle with Guillain–Barré syndrome from 1981 to 1982, as well as the experience of Vogel, Heller's longtime friend, helping with Heller's rehabilitation and serving as his public face during that time. Heller and Vogel wrote alternating chapters. On Sunday, December 13, 1981, Heller was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome, a debilitating syndrome that was to leave him temporarily paralyzed. He was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Mount Sinai Hospital the same day, and remained there, bedridden, until"
"identified with the novel's anti-war sentiments. The book went on to sell 10 million copies in the United States. The novel's title became a standard term in English and other languages for a dilemma with no easy way out. Now considered a classic, the book was listed at number 7 on Modern Library's list of the top 100 novels of the century. The United States Air Force Academy uses the novel to ""help prospective officers recognize the dehumanizing aspects of bureaucracy."" The movie rights to the novel were purchased in 1962, and, combined with his royalties, made Heller a millionaire."
"as he stands in for Heller, even traveling to the Cannes Film Festival, while at the same time Heller is becoming more helpless. Although Heller's disease is debilitating, he uses humor and avoids self-pity in this work. Heller does regret letting an insurance policy lapse, resulting in out-of-pocket expenses of around $120,000 in medical costs. No Laughing Matter (book) No Laughing Matter is a 1986 book co-authored by Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel. The book covers Heller's struggle with Guillain–Barré syndrome from 1981 to 1982, as well as the experience of Vogel, Heller's longtime friend, helping with Heller's rehabilitation and"
"Robert A. Heinlein; ""McJob"" from """" by Douglas Coupland; ""cyberspace"" from ""Neuromancer"" by William Gibson and ""quark"" from James Joyce's ""Finnegans Wake"". The title of a book may become a neologism, for instance, ""Catch-22"" (from the title of Joseph Heller's novel). Alternatively, the author's name may give rise to the neologism, although the term is sometimes based on only one work of that author. This includes such words as ""Orwellian"" (from George Orwell, referring to his novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"") and ""Kafkaesque"" (from Franz Kafka). Names of famous characters are another source of literary neologisms, e.g. ""quixotic"" (referring to the title"
"syndrome"" which provokes paralysis. Vogel moved in to Heller' house to help him to recover. They alternatively wrote the chapters in their best-seller ""No Laughing Matter"" which was published in 1986. The book was on the ""New York Times best-seller list for four weeks"". He has five children of his three marriages. Vogel died of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor, New York. He was 90. Speed Vogel Irving ""Speed"" Vogel (March 3, 1918 – April 14, 2008) was an American sculptor, painter, and co-author, along with Joseph Heller, of the best-selling memoir, ""No Laughing Matter"". He was"
"of this ""no-retreat"" strategy. Similar phrases are known in the West, such as ""burning bridges"" or ""Crossing the Rubicon"". This particular idiom cannot be used in a losing scenario because the story behind it does not describe a failure. Another example is """" (', lit. ""melon field, beneath the plums""). It is an idiom that has a deeper meaning that implies suspicious situations. It is derived from an excerpt from a Han era poem (, ""Yuèfǔ Shī"" """"Jūnzǐ Xíng""""). The poem includes the lines, ""Don't adjust your shoes in a melon field and don't tidy your hat under the plum"
"""need"" the money). One connotation of the term is that the creators of the ""catch-22"" situation have created arbitrary rules in order to justify and conceal their own abuse of power. Joseph Heller coined the term in his 1961 novel ""Catch-22"", which describes absurd bureaucratic constraints on soldiers in World War II. The term is introduced by the character Doc Daneeka, an army psychiatrist who invokes ""Catch-22"" to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity—hoping to be found not sane enough to fly and thereby escape dangerous missions—demonstrates his own sanity in creating the request and thus cannot"
"Anti-romance An anti-romance, sometimes referred to as a satire, is a type of story characterized by having an apathetic or self-doubting anti-hero cast as the protagonist, who fails in the object of his journey or struggle. Most anti-romances take place in urban settings, and frequently feature insanity, depression, and the meaning of reality as major themes. An anti-romance is the antithesis of a romance. J. D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"" is probably the most famous and successful anti-romance, though there are many others, including Thomas Pynchon's ""The Crying of Lot 49"", ""Araby"" by James Joyce and Joseph Heller's"
"// I win all yet remain a loser // At break of day I say goodnight // When I lie down I have a great fear // Of falling."" In a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, ""A Lodging for the Night"", Francis Villon (anglicized spelling), searching for shelter on a freezing winter night, knocks randomly at the door of an old nobleman. Invited in, they talk long into the night. Villon openly admits to being a thief and a scoundrel, but argues that the chivalric values upheld by the old man are no better. The story appears in the"
"the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", without the apostrophe (""Doh!""). The definition of the word is ""expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish"". In 2006, ""D'oh!"" was placed in sixth position on TV Land's list of the 100 greatest television catchphrases. ""D'oh!"" is also included in ""The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations"". The book includes several other quotations from Homer, including ""Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try"", from ""Burns' Heir"" (season five, 1994) as well as ""Kids"
"The Believers (novel) The Believers is a novel by Zoë Heller first published in 2008. It depicts a left-wing New York family of grown-ups who have little in common. The patriarch suffers an unexpected stroke and falls into a coma, after which each family member tries to continue his own unconventional course in life while at the same time trying to accommodate various revelations about the dying man and assisting and supporting the other family members in their lives. The motto of the book—""The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned""—is a quotation from Antonio"
"""best book you've never read""; while agreeing that it is overlong, she billed it as ""an invaluable study in how to portray the horror of everyday life."" Novelist Jonathan Franzen prefers ""Something Happened"" to ""Catch-22"", and Christopher Buckley referred to the work as ""dark and brilliant"". Comedian Richard Lewis claims he ""happily lost most of [his] hope"" after reading the novel. Something Happened Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after ""Catch-22""). Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family,"
"the well-known postmodern novels deal with World War II, one of the most famous of which being Joseph Heller's ""Catch-22"". Heller claimed his novel and many of the other American novels of the time had more to do with the state of the country after the war: The antiwar and anti government feelings in the book belong to the period following World War II: the Korean War, the cold war of the Fifties. A general disintegration of belief took place then, and it affected ""Catch-22"" in that the form of the novel became almost disintegrated. ""Catch-22"" was a collage; if"
"The Fight (book) The Fight is a 1975 non-fiction book by Norman Mailer about the boxing title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman at Kinshasa in Zaire in 1974, known as the ""Rumble in the Jungle"". The author is both the narrator and, in an example of illeism, a central figure in the story. To begin with, ""Norman"" goes to Ali's training camp at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania and observes his preparations. Clearly, Ali is his hero. He meets his entourage, among them Bundini, and the sparring partners such as Larry Holmes, Eddie Jones, and Roy Williams. The next scene"
"in the Miller play ""All My Sons"" and Noah Rosewater in the Vonnegut novel ""God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"". Milo Minderbinder First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's most successful novel, ""Catch-22"". As the mess officer of Yossarian's squadron, Minderbinder is a war profiteer during World War II, ""perhaps the best known of all fictional profiteers"" in American literature. The Minderbinder character is a ""bittersweet parody"" of the American dream, both a ""prophet of profit"" and the ""embodiment of evil"". Minderbinder also appears in Heller's sequel ""Closing Time"". In the 1970 film adaptation of ""Catch-22"" the"
"of Independence and early abolitionist, used the term ""negritude"" to imagine a rhetorical ""disease"" which he said was a mild form of leprosy, the only cure of which was to become white. This early use of the term may not have been known by the Francophone blacks who developed the philosophy of Négritude during the 20th century. Novelist Norman Mailer used the term to describe boxer George Foreman's physical and psychological presence in his book ""The Fight"", a journalistic treatment of the legendary Ali vs. Foreman ""Rumble in the Jungle"" bout in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)"
"Speed Vogel Irving ""Speed"" Vogel (March 3, 1918 – April 14, 2008) was an American sculptor, painter, and co-author, along with Joseph Heller, of the best-selling memoir, ""No Laughing Matter"". He was born in New York City and was the fourth of five children of his father Julius who was a builder. He was educated at West Virginia University and attended pre-med classes at New York University but with the beginning of World War II started working as a shipbuilder. Later he started his own textile business ""Ria Herlinger Fabrics"" together with his first wife. Later he became a furniture"
"manuscript is held by Brandeis University. Catch-22 Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot. The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army"
"Then one person asked him what would happen if he were to take his spear to strike his shield; the seller could not answer. This led to the idiom of """"zìxīang máodùn"""" (自相矛盾, ""from phrase spear shield""), or ""self-contradictory"". Another ancient and mythological example illustrating this theme can be found in the story of the Teumessian fox, who can never be caught, and the hound Laelaps, who never misses what it hunts. Realizing the paradox, Zeus turns both creatures into static stars. The problems associated with this paradox can be applied to any other conflict between two abstractly defined extremes"
"In ""Catch-22"", Joseph Heller's protagonist Yossarian laments the death of one of his bomber's flight crew, Snowden, with ""Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?"" as well as in French, ""Où sont les Neiges d'antan?"" In Antonio Skármeta's novel, ""El cartero de Neruda"", Villon is mentioned as having been hanged for crimes much less serious than seducing the daughter of the local bar owner. In Edward Rutherfurd's 2013 novel ""Paris,"" in Chapter 8 set in 1462, Villon is a regular in the Rising Sun tavern, a gathering place for thieves and criminals, and reads two ballads from ""The Testament"" to the"
"Catch-22 Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot. The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of"
"under the topic 'Fish' or that of 'Game' ... It is the old story of the camel's head in the tent. What seems at first a plausible pretext for forcing some novel case or new principle into a topic or subdivision to which it does not naturally belong, leads to hopeless confusion. In a 1915 book of fables by Horace Scudder, the story titled ""The Arab and His Camel"" ends with the moral: ""It is a wise rule to resist ""the beginnings of evil""."" U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater used the metaphor in expressing his opposition to the National Defense Education"
"Ever to Excel ""Ever to Excel"" is the English translation of the Ancient Greek phrase "" ""aièn aristeúein"". It has been used as motto by a number of educational institutions. The phrase is derived from the sixth book of Homer's ""Iliad,"" in which it is used in a speech Glaucus delivers to Diomedes. During a battle between the Greeks and Trojans, Diomedes is impressed by the bravery of a mysterious young man and demands to know his identity. Glaucus replies: ""Hippolochus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: ""Ever to"
"""a point of no return""; for example: Alea iacta est Caesar was said to have borrowed the phrase from Menander, his favourite Greek writer of comedy; the phrase appears in ""Ἀρρηφόρος"" (transliterated as ""Arrephoros"") (or possibly ""The Flute-Girl""), as quoted in ""Deipnosophistae"" , paragraph 8. Plutarch reports that these words were said in Greek: Suetonius, a contemporary of Plutarch writing in Latin, reports a similar phrase. Lewis and Short, citing Casaubon and Ruhnk, suggest that the text of Suetonius should read ""iacta alea esto"" (reading the imperative ""esto"" instead of ""est""), which they translate as ""Let the die be cast!"","
"of the ""Aeneid"", Virgil speaks of the “walls of lofty Rome.” Daniel Mendelsohn, in ""The New Yorker"", cites this as an example of enallage: ""The poet knew what he was doing—'lofty walls' is about architecture, but 'lofty Rome' is about empire."" Another noted example is when professional prize fight manager Joe Jacobs cried, ""We was robbed!"", after his fighter lost a decision in 1932. Through this utterance Arthur Quinn claimed Jacobs ""achieved for himself linguistic immortality."" A colorful Lake Charles, Louisiana politician, Johnny Myers, once was heard to say in a political speech, ""I ain't got no dogs in that"
"taking place from the late 1880s to around 1910. He tells of becoming a thief, burglar, and member of the yegg (safe-cracking) subculture, exploring the topics of crime, criminal justice, vice, addictions, penology, and human folly from various viewpoints, from observer to consumer to supplier, and from victim to perpetrator. ""You Can't Win"" originally appeared in serial format in the ""San Francisco Call-Bulletin"" under the editorship of Fremont Older. It was so popular that it was reissued in book format by MacMillan and became a best-seller. It has been translated into Russian, Swedish, French, and other languages. After the book's"
"Catch-22 (play) Catch-22 is a satirical play by the American author Joseph Heller, first produced in 1971 and based on his novel of the same name. The story follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, and a number of other characters. Most events occur while the airmen of the Fighting 256th (or ""two to the fighting eighth power"") Squadron are based on the island of Pianosa, west of Italy. Many events in the story are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about the event from each iteration. Furthermore, the events"
"notes that the character of Joel Litvinoff may be modelled on William Kunstler. The Believers (novel) The Believers is a novel by Zoë Heller first published in 2008. It depicts a left-wing New York family of grown-ups who have little in common. The patriarch suffers an unexpected stroke and falls into a coma, after which each family member tries to continue his own unconventional course in life while at the same time trying to accommodate various revelations about the dying man and assisting and supporting the other family members in their lives. The motto of the book—""The challenge of modernity"
"a glimpse of military humor when portraying Gump as a soldier in training and later fighting in Vietnam. Some comedies, like the ""Don't Call Me Charlie"" (1962–63) TV series (about a young veterinarian drafted into the Army and stationed in Paris), are totally devoted to the military theme. The fourth series of the British sitcom ""Blackadder"", known as ""Blackadder Goes Forth"", revolves around the life of Edmund Blackadder in the trenches of World War I. Notable books include Shel Silverstein's ""Grab Your Socks"" (1956), Jaroslav Hašek's ""The Good Soldier Švejk"" (1923) and ""Catch-22"" by Joseph Heller. ""Reader's Digest""'s ""Humor in"
"no food, he lay hungry every day, and<br> Was dressed in garments that had no change.<br> In his unhappy mood, he thought to himself:<br> I'll strip off my garments which have no change, and<br> In my city of Nippur's market I'll buy a sheep!<br> So he stripped off his garments which had no change, and<br> In his city of Nippur's market he bought a three-year-old goat.<br> In his unhappy mood, he thought to himself:<br> Suppose I slaughter this goat in my yard-<br> There could be no feast, for where is the beer?<br> My friends in the neighbourhood would find out"
"1948 short story ""Unite and Conquer""; but Roger Lancelyn Green (in 1962) ascribed it to Professor Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. The phrase also appears in Myra Brooks Welch's poem ""The Touch of the Master's Hand,"" in which ""a mess of pottage — a glass of wine — a game"" stand for all such petty worldly pursuits, contrasted to life after a spiritual awakening. The phrase also appears in the 1919 African-American film ""Within Our Gates"", as used by the preacher character 'Old Ned' who having ingratiated himself by acting the clown with"
"ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism."" Mitrosilis comments that ""Mailer observes the power and frailty of his own persona just as he does with the fighters and their cornermen… hiding nothing."" To him it appears like ""a near impossible task to lie on the couch and sit in the chair, the psychologist and the patient."" The Fight (book) The Fight is a 1975 non-fiction book by Norman Mailer about the boxing title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman at Kinshasa in Zaire in 1974, known as the ""Rumble in the Jungle"". The author is both the"