I have read, and am rereading Catch-22, by Joseph Heller. Anyway there is a line that I am trying to understand...will be walking around with a little paper with it written on it till i get it or am explained it..fa lets see if the blogging world can help:
Anything can be done to you that you can not prevent.
Good Luck
i read this book a few times when i was 15 or something so i'm not sure about the accuracy of my answer.
ReplyDeletecatch-22 is defined several ways in the book but all the definitions have irony and illogic as their common denominator. what you're quoting is regards to that the enemy can basically do anything they want that we can't keep them from doing...which is of course illogical.
it's like saying...this action was done to me because i could not prevent it
hence...if i could prevent an action from happening to me then it will not happen.
thus...all things that happen to us are things we cannot prevent.
according to a modes of reasoning course i took long ago, this is also known as circular reasoning.
I think it means one thing.
ReplyDeleteYou don't/can't control your life destiny - with the exception of those you can actually control.
This book has been sitting on my shelf for the past four months gathering dusk. Maybe will have more interesting thoughts after I read it... god knows when that'll be.