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⚜️ Alex Valtor 🌈 Cops ✨️✨️✨️
8.4.26
It was a gag, it was all for a laugh
A nervous system
One of those popular tumblr users that seems like a cool/kind person whom I dislike/find annoying for 0 reason, and I've always recognized that as an error in judgement on my part bc I respect op as being much more well-read and thoughtful than I am + secretly thought I wasn't vibing with them because I'm not smart enough, but this is making me question that judgement lol
found this article that interviewed the guy who wrote the hulu c22 miniseries adaptation and shaking my head... you dont get it... you do not get it... apparently he read it in english class--what grade did you get on that final essay?
like here. going from taking the premise of the nonlinear narrative--which is very intentional on Heller's part! Heller of course is showing the absurdity but also the mental degradation from Yossarian's perspective as his world becomes warped by the trauma of Snowden's death. by taking this away (deliberately!) i would argue that it does not tell a better story and very much detracts from the thematic arguments Heller was trying to make. it's just a truly baffling perspective. additionally, i feel like a base understanding of the intention of the nonlinear narrative (whether you like it or not) is quintessential to understanding Heller's premise.
or this!! yes, it is just a sentence--but it's important to the narrative to be like that. Yossarian's not even sure he's dead, just that he's gone. It allows the callback at the end with Yossarian and the chaplain discussing the whole "they got my pals" thing, and insisting that Clev is one of his pals--and expressing hope that he may be alive. Drawing out his death wouldn't have the same narrative draw or importance to it. the article goes on to then explain that it felt it was more narratively powerful to have Yossarian watch Clev's plane disappear in the cloud--which again, isn't the same thing Heller intended. Having a conclusive disappearance that is visible to the main character vs having an indeterminate disappearance where the main character can't be certain of what happened matters! Especially in a book like this!
milo and yossarian
We need to go back to dealing with our trauma like early-mid 20th century male authors that fought in WWI or WWII
(by writing an epic novel hiding the trauma behind metaphors/fantasy/absurdism and characters that are a little insane)