Online meeting notes

(Last) week's online meeting notes! Brought to you by the May 15th Live.

• Reviewed some things from the last meeting we had
• Went over Catch-22 and what it meant/it's meaning

Book Notes:

• Hungry Joe had some nightmares at night that kept everyone awake
• Huple is introduced
• The 15-year-old pilot who lied about his age to get into the Army
• Fascism: governmental system led by a dictator with complete power 
• (ex: Germany, Adolf Hitler)
• Doc Daneeka has so little empathy, even towards Hungry Joe who happens to be suffering through a lot because of his nightmares
• Ash and soot
• "The Valley of Ash" reference/connection to The Great Gatsby 
• "two giant eyes looking over it" the eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleberg
• Hungry Joe had a knack for being able to persuade naked girls into letting him take pictures of them
• he would fail tremendously because he would forget to put new film, turn on certain settings, or even forget to take off the lens cap
• Wily: tricky (ex. Wily Coyote)
• Cajolery: persuasion
• Idolatry: being idolized/idolizing someone
• "Yossarian was laid up in the hospital with the burst of clap he had caught on a low-level mission over a Wac in bushes..." (page 38)
• "burst of clap" slang for an STD
• "Wac" is short for WAC meaning Women's Air Corps
• Basically meaning that Yossarian was in the bushes with a woman in the service and that's how he got what he got
• Colonel Cathcart had increased the number of missions needed to go home by raising it from 25 to 30
• Hungry Joe is almost an example of what could happen when doing the right thing for such a long time under some possibly really wrong circumstances
• would complete a tour of 25 or even 50 missions and expect to be sent home. He would never be sent home.
• Colonel Korn...like Kernel of corn
• The book shows a sense of humanity