![]() ![]() “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn’t have to but if he didn’t want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. ![]() Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. All he had to do was ask and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.” “Sure there’s a catch,” Doc Daneeka replied. The term is first introduced by the character Doc Daneeka, an army psychiatrist who invokes “Catch-22” to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity demonstrates his own sanity in creating the request and thus cannot be declared insane. ![]()
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