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One day when Yossarian is staring over the skyline and wondering where Clevinger and Orr are, McWatt suddenly skims over the surface of the water and slices Kid Sampson in half with his propeller. Chaos ensues at the grotesque sight. Yossarian yells futilely at McWatt to come down. His cries are useless as McWatt flies higher and higher and then flies into a mountain. In response to these deaths, Colonel Cathcart increases the number of missions to sixty-five.

When Colonel Cathcart finds out that Doc Daneeka is dead, he increases the number of missions to seventy. Sergeant Towser is the first one to realize Doc Daneeka is dead. He tells Gus and Wes, and when they take Doc Daneeka’s temperature, it is half a degree lower that the usual 96.8 degrees--when Doc Daneeka, who is actually still alive, complains about being cold, they point out that he has been dead all this time, but never realized it until now. Doc Daneeka screams with anger when they say they will tell his wife that he is dead. At first, Mrs. Daneeka is very upset when she finds out. She then receives conflicting letters from her husband and from the War Department regarding the life of her husband. But as Mrs. Daneeka begins to receive widow pensions and other monetary benefits, she appreciates her new measure of wealth.

Meanwhile, Doc Daneeka is considered dead by the squadron, and he has to depend on Milo and Sergeant Towser for food. He is ostracized by everyone and almost starves to death. He writes a final intense appeal to his wife, but she moves away with the children when she receives the generic official notification from the army of his death.

http://www.gradesaver.com/catch22/study-guide/section5/

Or they could communicate with carefully controlled breaking of wind.

Kilgore Trout has prior art on that (2nd paragraph).

I would like to provide a very profound example of the need for privacy: The U.S. Constitution. One of the biggest aids to getting the Constitution ratified in 1789 were the series of essays later entitled The Federalist Papers and although they were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, and others they were published under the pseudonyms Ceasar, Publius, amoung others. See: ClassicNote on The Federalist Papers.

The Federalist Papers are the single greatest interpretive source of the Constitution of the United States, the best insight and explanation of what the Founding Fathers purpose was in the passage of the document that governs the United States of America.

Supporting freedom of speech is not going to your local church on Sunday and hoopin' and hollerin' along with the priest, minister, rabbi, or whatever title they may possess. Supporting freedom of speech is seeing someone on their soap box spewing forth the most vile, soul wrenching diatribe you can imagine and while disagreeing with the message being given you still stand up and fight for their right to voice the opinion. Unfortunately many opposing points of view must be expressed anonymoously to avoid any repurcussions (like the no-fly list).

basically, he said citizens have a duty to oppose unjust laws by breaking them...

not to intrude on your idealism, but there are degrees of injustice, and i'd contend that the injustice done to the public good by the Sonny Bono Act is magnitudes greater than the injustice done to the record cartel's bottom line!

One of the most famous imaginary worlds was created by a mathematician, independant of him being a possible pedophile.

Of course, literate geeks should know that paper ignites at Fahrenheit 451, (233 C).

Combine this with a robotic nose and a little more homeland security and we have a Fahrenheit 451 situation here!

Madison Avenue == Metaphor for all that is wrong with Modern American Consumerism.

Madison Avenue is where all your dreams come true, even the ones you didn't know you had.

Madison Avenue == MiniTrue.

There, maybe now you understand what I mean... assuming you have a literate braincell in your body.

Let me ask you... if you take out all the violence in all the video games, tv shows, movies, and books, what do you have left? Boring crap ... The fact is that violence is fun.

Its people like you, with such cheap viewpoints as this, who make the world such a degrading place to live in. War is Peace, Love is Hate, Violence is Fun, etc.

Violence is not fun. Violence is violence.

Anything can be fun, if you do it often enough to notice an improvement in the way you do it. ... why don't you explain just WHY a television is expected to do the parenting more than the parent is?

Television thrives on one thing, and one thing only: attention. So do video games.

Not having the attention for ones parents, one won't get the parenting one needs ...

{MadAve loves its Attention Slaves. To death.}

For those who didn't get the joke, Gradesaver has excellent Cliffish-like notes for all three LoTR titles as well as the Hobbit.

Lot49.com is an interesting tribute to Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 , an intersting exploration of life in CA. (My favorite part is the name of one of the bands--Sick Dick and the Volkwagens)

For those interesting in a real headtrip, try to plow your way through Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

Pynchon is an interesting hermit. He didn't accept his award for Gravity's Rainbow.

Instead, he sent Irwin Corey.

(BTW, You'll enjoy GR a lot more if you read it with a companion.)

No, soma in Brave New World is a pleasure-giving drug, some sort of narcotic. Sort of like legal crack, without any side-effects.