Second, are we ready to talk about the book? I’ll admit that my required reading of chapters 1-14 is not complete, but I ain’t gonna get it done till next week due to work and that’s that.
Let me open with this, then, before we get started:
" He was a very serious, very earnest and very conscientious dope. It was impossible to go to a movie with him without getting involved afterward in a discussion on empathy, Aristotle, universals, messages and the obligations of the cinema as an art form in a materialistic society. Girls he took to the theater had to wait until the first intermission to find out from him whether or not they were seeing a good or a bad play, and they found out at once. He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence. He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."
Is Heller telling us something?
Finally, I’m not gonna be at the computer all day, and I hope Gadarene will jump in here and do his eloquent thing.
Thatnks for starting this thread, Sophie. Here’s a quick bump. Real life has been keeping me away from the boards this weekend, but I do hope that we can get a discussion started.
This thread, at the very least, could serve as a progress report. How far into the book is everyone?
I wasn’t aware that we were going to discuss Catch-22 so I just picked up the book 2 days ago and started in. I’m near the very beginning (haven’t read it in a good 12 years or so). I understand if you want to push forward to discuss it but otherwise, can someone set a sort of schedule?
