2023-10-22 Sun 13.09pm [[Joseph Heller 1961 - Catch-22.pdf]] >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-22T20:14:38.585Z","updated":"2023-10-22T20:14:38.585Z","document":{"title":"Catch-22","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:5fcfa8adf29eda71e622d3242e753a65"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Joseph Heller 1961 - Catch-22.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"5fcfa8adf29eda71e622d3242e753a65"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Joseph Heller 1961 - Catch-22.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Joseph Heller 1961 - Catch-22.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":3383,"end":4529},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters writtenby all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards oftheir own. It was a monotonous job, and Yossarian was disappointed tolearn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting thanthe lives of officers. After the first day he had no curiosity at all. To breakthe monotony he invented games. Death to all modifiers, he declared oneday, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverband every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached amuch higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked outeverything in the letters but a, an and the. That erected more dynamicintralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left a message farmore universal. Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signaturesand leaving the text untouched. One time he blacked out all but thesalutation “Dear Mary” from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, “I yearnfor you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.” R. O. Shipmanwas the group chaplain’s name.","prefix":"he had not written anyone since.","suffix":"When he had exhausted all possib"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters writtenby all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards oftheir own. It was a monotonous job, and Yossarian was disappointed tolearn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting thanthe lives of officers. After the first day he had no curiosity at all. To breakthe monotony he invented games. Death to all modifiers, he declared oneday, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverband every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached amuch higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked outeverything in the letters but a, an and the. That erected more dynamicintralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left a message farmore universal. Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signaturesand leaving the text untouched. One time he blacked out all but thesalutation “Dear Mary” from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, “I yearnfor you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.” R. O. Shipmanwas the group chaplain’s name.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^zx81b4dap6d|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^zx81b4dap6d