Not P but Catch--22. Publishing of. In which P is name-checked. In which the "his ass fell off" joke might have been learned.

[Mark Kohut]

And how we learn that Pynchon surely read *Catch-22*  in* New World Writing
*then equally *surely* through Candida in manuscript BEFORE *V. *was
published.

We can say *surely, *without the reduction to certainty, because of the
influence, allusive borrowings of aspects of *Catch-22* on *V.*, I
have previously declared. Fight me. (I'll send you to the plist archives
because I am too far from it all textually. And Thomas E will remind how
that matters).

Or just tell me I'm wrong and move on to truth as you half-see it. 🤗😄

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/08/heller-201108