Catch-22...say _what_?

[kevin at limits.org]

[Jbor writes:]
I really can't see [Pynchon] using the suffering and horror of the
Holocaust (or of the actual fighting and killing being done by soldiers in
WWII) to earn profit, laughs or kudos for himself. Others, like Heller,
have done this, of course, and that's where Pynchon's "allegory" of the
tourists (which always enacts a reader-persona in my reading of Pynchon)
being led to the Dora camp by some sideshow shyster takes on its reflexive
tenor and is not at all what Crownshaw attempts to turn it into.
[end quote]

Do you really think Catch-22 is all about "cheap laughs" or Heller's
profit?  And, if so, on what basis?

If you want to go off-list and maintain the Pynchon Purity, that's fine
with me...I post this to the whole list in order to maintain the honor of
Joseph Heller before the whole world.  ;)


Kevin Troy