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Yossarian

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Yossarian
always creating new ways to stay alive through long war. [Am. Lit.: Catch-22]
See : Endurance
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The book's antihero, Tyrone Slothrop, the map of whose fornications in London during the Blitz predicts the pattern of V-2 landings, was a classic schlemiel in the mold of Nathanael West's Lemuel Pitkin and Joseph Heller's Yossarian.
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Yossarian, Ray Elwood makes no secret of his aims or motives.
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The story of Yossarian, a bombardier who is too smart to die, but not smart enough to get himself discharged from the war he thinks is insane.
Catch-22. (Enduring Favorites) by Kliatt
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