MCFLY

And now, the beginning page of Catch 22, by Joseph Heller.
CHAPTER 1 - THE TEXAN
It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being
jaundice. The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice. If it
became jaundice they could treat it. If it didn't become jaundice and went away they
could discharge him. But this just being short of jaundice all the time confused them.
Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths
and inefficient eyes, accompanied by brisk and serious Nurse Duckett, one of the
ward nurses who didn't like Yossarian. They read the chart at the foot of the bed
and asked impatiently about the pain. They seemed irritated when he told them it
was exactly the same.
'Still no movement?' the full colonel demanded.
The doctors exchanged a look when he shook his head.
'Give him another pill.'
Nurse Duckett made a note to give Yossarian another pill, and the four of them
moved along to the next bed. None of the nurses liked Yossarian. Actually, the pain in
his liver had gone away, but Yossarian didn't say anything and the doctors never
suspected. They just suspected that he had been moving his bowels and not
telling anyone.
Yossarian had everything he wanted in the hospital. The food wasn't too bad, and his
meals were brought to him in bed. There were extra rations of fresh meat, and
during the hot part of the afternoon he and the others were served chilled fruit
juice or chilled chocolate milk. Apart from the doctors and the nurses, no one ever
disturbed him. For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was
free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a clear
conscience. He was comfortable in the hospital, and it was easy to stay on because he
always ran a temperature of 101. He was even more comfortable than Dunbar, who
had to keep falling down on his face in order to get his meals brought to him in bed.
After he had made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian
wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never
mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he
was going on a very dangerous mission. 'They asked for volunteers. It's very
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