Catch-22. Chapter 7 “McWatt”

Part 1 of the Zoom chat:

18:57:14 From Teacher Lee : Are you able to hear me?
18:59:52 From Teacher Lee : Make a bullet list of points to talk about.
19:00:40 From Diana Yarmolinska : McWatt
19:00:45 From Teacher Lee : McWatt (muk WATT)
19:01:14 From Teacher Lee : Milo (MY lo)
19:01:52 From Teacher Lee : Arfy
19:02:26 From Teacher Lee : rejected his off
19:02:33 From Teacher Lee : rejected his offer
19:02:53 From Teacher Lee : soap flakes in the mashed potatoes
19:03:16 From Teacher Lee : bedsheet
19:06:06 From Diana Yarmolinska : Milo had rigid scruples that would not even allow him to borrow a package of pitted dates from the mess hall that day of McWatt’s stolen bedsheet, for the food at the mess hall was all still the property of the government.
19:06:21 From Teacher Lee : strict morality
19:06:50 From Teacher Lee : extremely honest
19:07:00 From Vasanth : t
19:08:50 From Teacher Lee : paroxysm = outburst of emotion, like a temper tantrum
19:09:02 From Teacher Lee : an uneven mustache
19:09:43 From Teacher Lee : Milo’s mustache was “off-colored”.
19:10:30 From Vasanth : c
19:10:36 From Teacher Lee : He was always tugging at his mustache.
19:11:11 From Jörgen Olsson : twitching
19:12:43 From Teacher Lee : twitch is a slight muscle spasm on the face usually
19:13:12 From Vasanth : Milo’s mustache was unfortunate because the separated halves never matched. They were like Milo’s disunited eyes, which never looked at the same thing at the same time. Milo could see more things than most people, but he could see none of them too distinctly. In contrast to his reaction to news of the C.I.D. man, he learned with calm courage from Yossarian that Colonel Cathcart had raised the number of missions to fifty-five.
19:13:26 From Teacher Lee : MUS tash
19:13:38 From Diana Yarmolinska : Milo’s mustache was unfortunate because the separated halves never matched. They were like Milo’s disunited eyes, which never looked at the same thing at the same time. Milo could see more things than most people, but he could see none of them too distinctly. In contrast to his reaction to news of the C.I.D. man, he learned with calm courage from Yossarian that Colonel Cathcart had raised the number of missions to fifty-five.
19:14:10 From Teacher Lee : Milo was cross-eyed.
19:15:13 From Vasanth : Crime Investigation Department
19:22:40 From Vasanth : c
19:23:24 From Teacher Lee : Career path in the military
19:23:42 From Teacher Lee : the brig
19:24:14 From Teacher Lee : the psycho ward
19:24:39 From Teacher Lee : promoted
19:24:42 From Teacher Lee : up the ranks
19:25:19 From Teacher Lee : they discriminated against him for not being a communist by giving him remote assignments
19:26:16 From Diana Yarmolinska : Ordinarily, Yossarian’s pilot was McWatt, who, shaving in loud red, clean pajamas outside his tent each morning, was one of the odd, ironic, incomprehensible things surrounding Yossarian. McWatt was the craziest combat man of them all probably, because he was perfectly sane and still did not mind the war. He was a short-legged, wide-shouldered, smiling young soul who whistled bouncy show tunes continuously and turned over cards with sharp snaps when he dealt at blackjack or poker until Hungry Joe disintegrated into quaking despair finally beneath their cumulative impact and began ranting at him to stop snapping the cards.
19:29:58 From Teacher Lee : cumulative = more and more incrementally
19:30:35 From Jörgen Olsson : increasing by successive additions?
19:31:29 From Vasanth : shaving in loud red?
19:31:49 From Teacher Lee : red pajamas
19:32:02 From Teacher Lee : loud = very bright
19:32:36 From Jörgen Olsson : blind your eyes?
19:33:08 From Teacher Lee : bouncy = energetic
19:33:36 From Teacher Lee : lecher
19:33:51 From Teacher Lee : a lecher = dirty old man
19:34:06 From Teacher Lee : Milo went white
19:34:17 From Vasanth : pale
19:34:49 From Teacher Lee : This is Captain Yossarian, sir,” said Corporal Snark with a superior smirk. Corporal Snark was an intellectual snob who felt he was twenty years ahead of his time and did not enjoy cooking down to the masses. “He has a letter from Doc Daneeka entitling him to all the fruit and fruit juices he wants.” “What’s this?” cried out Yossarian, as Milo went white and began to sway. “This is Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder, sir,” said Corporal Snark with a derisive wink.
19:36:17 From Teacher Lee : derisiver
19:36:24 From Teacher Lee : deride , derisive
19:36:43 From Teacher Lee : de RICE ive
19:37:02 From Teacher Lee : cook down to the masses
19:37:45 From Teacher Lee : corrugate