The Aerodrome
“Mother you held me on your knee. Mother you worked for me. Mother, you taught me to toddle....
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Impatience of the Heart
I cannot describe my state of mind as I stood outside the house. Behind the lighted windows the...
By Night In Chile
And among the clients of the shoemaker in question, the shoemaker of Vienna, was the...
The Wall
Mornings on the Wall, dawn and dusk and night, were times for poetry. Skyconcretewaterwind....
Catch 22
And now you could read... Catch 22 Catch 22 Catch 22 Tenth of December The Wall 4 3 2...
The Dispossessed
Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains… and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency
Catch 22
They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in...
