Catch-22

Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn’t know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn’t funny at all. But Yossarian couldn’t be happy, even though the Texan didn’t want him to be, because outside the hospital there was still nothing funny going on. The two sisters swore and spat at each other now savagely, raising a fluent, deafening commotion that brought a whole crowd of hilarious spectators swarming into the room. He moaned calmly as though in remote, instinctive distress and kept repeating, “Illegal tobacco, illegal tobacco.” Yossarian stepped out of the way with resignation finally when he saw it was hopeless to try to reason with him.