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Catch 22 |
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Catch 22 also a Catch 22 situation a situation where one thing must happen in order to cause another thing to happen, but because the first thing does not happen the second thing cannot happen Usage notes: Catch 22 is the title of a book by Joseph Heller about the experiences of an American pilot. If you don't have a place to stay, you can't get a job and with no job, you can't get an apartment. It's a Catch 22 situation. See also: catch How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In an audiobook, all this can cause more than a little initial confusion, but for those who persevere, this novel is to the Civil War era what Catch 22 is to WW II. Pataki said "The Attorney General of Connecticut has placed Long Island residents in a real catch 22 situation--on the one hand he claims that the cable should not operate because it is not buried deep enough, while at the same time Connecticut will not allow it to be buried to the proper depth. In Joseph Heller's two best novels, Catch 22 and Something Happened, the narrative circles obsessively around a repressed memory that it is the stories' business finally to confront. |
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