User:Twinxor/Narrative of Catch 22

1: The Texan

Yossarian is in the hospital, with a pain in his liver just short of jaundice. He tyrannically censors letters, causing the C.I.D. man to infiltrate the ward. Yossarian, Dunbar, and the Texan watch as the Soldier in White is brought to their ward and removed, and Yossarian and Dunbar accuse the Texan of murdering him. The chaplain attempts to tend to Yossarian. A morbidly ill colonel arrives in the ward, attended to by a large staff, and Yossarian and the others leave the hospital.

2: Clevinger

Yossarian argues to Clevinger that "every one of them" is trying to kill him. Brief introductions to Orr, Havermeyer, McWatt, and Nately. Clevinger attempts to control Yossarian's anger. Yossarian eats at Milo's mess hall and pleads for Doc Daneeka to send him home, but Daneeka reminds Yossarian that he hasn't met his quota of missions yet.

3. Havermeyer

Introduction to Yossarian's tent-mates, the dead man and Orr. Orr confuses Yossarian with his story about crab apples in his cheeks, and the incident in which Nately's Whore beat Orr with her spiked-heel shoe, sending him to the hospital. General Peckem attempts to show up General Dreedle with an offensive of memoranda. Yossarian's group waits nervously, expecting Colonel Cathcart to raise the number of missions needed to go home, and Colonel Cargill makes a miserable attempt to cheer them up. Daneeka refuses to ground Yossarian, complaining of his own problems and holding up the example of Havermeyer, whose fatalistic style makes him a precise bombadier and a menace to field mice.

4. Doc Daneeka

Description of Gus and Wes' useless medical care, under Daneeka's careful tutelage. Daneeka gets others to fake his flight time but refuses to return the favor. Yossarian asks existential questions, disrupting Clevinger's educational session, leading Colonels Cathcart and Korn to promptly stop the dangerous activity of asking questions. Ex-PFC Wintergreen alarms headquarters with the mention of "T.S. Elliot". Dunbar explains his strategy of longer life through misery.