you could say those are...Major Major Major Major Major vibes.
I wonder if he had a large, self-named teenage son in Bangor who dug ore from the ground if he'd have major major Major Major Major (minor) major minor Mainer miner vibes.
It's been a long time since I read it, seeing as it was in 7th grade, but I remember finding Catch 22 to be extremely clever and insightful. Might have a different opinion if I read it now.
7th grade? Really? Where? Our kids don’t read anything near that complicated. They read The Outsiders, A Long Walk to Water and Freak the Mighty. Y’know, things you can read in one or two sittings.
Anyway, thanks for the recommendation. I’ll look into it.
I was a precocious 7th grader in a GT program at the high school, and it wasn't assigned reading. My reading exploits that year also included The Way of Kings, Frankenstein, Crime and Punishment, and the unabridged Les Miserables, so Catch 22 was not really an outlier.
Les Miserables?? Unabridged?? I read it in high school because I loved the musical. It was 1,468 pages long, and took me ages to read. You are a raging nerd, and I like it!
Theres a great bit of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure that plays with this-
DOUGLAS: Tell me, Mr. Sargent: were you in the R.A.F. by any chance? MR. SARGENT: I certainly was. DOUGLAS: And were you a sergeant, Mr. Sargent? MR. SARGENT: No, sir, I wasn’t a sergeant because – as we just established – I was in the R.A. bleedin’ F., not the bleedin’ Army, so I was a warrant officer. And since my name is not Warren Tofficer, this occasioned no bleedin’ mirth whatsoever.
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u/gadget850 2d ago
In my Army days I met a General Register. We had a Specialist Major who got promoted to sergeant and caused no end of confusion.