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The Snowdens of Yesteryear

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Enough of the movie fanart. Now it's time to do some literary fanart.
This is from one of my favorite books, Catch-22. For those of you who haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. Reading the novel is sorta like slowly going crazy, and loving every minute of it. That and it coined a term for bureaucratic circular logic (a "Catch-22") If you're up for a read, I'll stick a section from the book describing Catch-22 on the bottom here.

This is based on one of the more famous images from the book, when Yossarian, the main character, decides to never wear his army uniform again after a rather messy traumatic incident in his World War 2 bomber.

For those who have read the book, I included a gravestone for every one of the main characters of the story who dies (unfortunately my favorite character is among them). I even included one for Doc Daneeka, even though he was only officially dead, and not actually dead.

"Yossarian Lives!"

Catch-22 is (c) of Joseph Heller

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed."
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QuirkyCuriousBex's avatar

I know this is old, but I recently watched the Hulu series and loved it and wanted to see what Catch-22 related art I could find on here. I like what you did with this, especially the gravestones. Snowden's death really got to me.


Oh, and poor Kid Sampson. Man. I had a good cry after that.