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humor in Catch-22. I never saw anything funny that wasn t terrible. If it causes pain, it s funny; if it doesn t it isn t. The humor in Catch-22, we are forced to conclude, is only secondary. Where Heller comes through in unalleviated horror is where the message lies. The book s humor does not alleviate the horror; it heightens it by contrast (197). Works Cited Brustein, Robert. The Logic of Survival in a Lunatic World, reprinted in The New Republic Online, . (28 March 2000). Hasley, Louis. Dramatic Tension in Catch-22, in The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2, January, 1974, pp. 190-197. EXPLORING Novels. Gale Research, 1998. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. December, 2000. . Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Inc.,

1989. Kennard, Jean E. Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity , in Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature and New Views of the English and American Novel, Vol. IV, No. 3, Spring, 1971, pp.75-87. Muste, Abraham. Better to Die Laughing. Publisher and year unknown, pp. 17 & 27. Pennarun, Avery. Literary Humor: Ha versus Blah. , (17 September 1999). Regehr, John. John s Book Pages (Catch-22). , (2 February 2001). 344