Catch-22 and Yossarian

I was thinking today about the circular logic of a Catch-22. Uhh…it was so hard to explain it to Yossarian that one day when he wanted to be grounded. I told him that I couldn’t ground him just for asking me. I don’t want to get into trouble, for goodness sake’s! I might be shipped off to the Pacific. Yossarian asked if I could ground him for being crazy. I replied that of course I would ground him if he was crazy. Then he tried to convince me that he is crazy. Finally I explained the Catch-22 to him: I can only ground men from flying who are crazy, but if someone asks to be grounded that proves they are not crazy! Who knows how much Yossarian understood of that conversation. He’s just moved on to finding other ways around flying. … Oh dearie me, I think I’m sick for sure today. I should go to Gus and Wes to get my temperature taken…