Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
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I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
タグ: lived, been, post, faithful
Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
タグ: short, difficult, impossible, age
You live vicariously through your characters.
タグ: through, your, live, you
My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.
タグ: wife, home, history, me
I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
タグ: cerebral, belly, writer, go
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