tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6707018437061991761.post6149219745325607761..comments2023-04-03T06:02:18.775-05:00Comments on Booksketch: The Snowdens of YesteryearBurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133178123779607454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6707018437061991761.post-40867314509077755662007-10-15T13:11:00.000-05:002007-10-15T13:11:00.000-05:00attaboy, john! great comment. I'm going to eventua...attaboy, john! great comment. I'm going to eventually do a drawing from a Chesterton book, <B>The Man Who Was Thursday</B>. One of my favorites!Burthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07133178123779607454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6707018437061991761.post-79237032413312102072007-10-15T12:56:00.000-05:002007-10-15T12:56:00.000-05:00I really enjoyed Catch-22. The portrait of insanit...I really enjoyed Catch-22. The portrait of insanity that the book paints is an interesting one. It kind of ties in to something I've recently read by G. K. Chesterton. In his work Orthodoxy, he describes the insane person as one who is overly logical, rather than one who is overly artistic or lucidly-thinking. The "logical" man will try to put boundaries on the concepts of infinity, the nature of the universe or God. In attempting these feats, he simply destroys his own brain. The mathematician or scientist will go insane long before the artist or poet. Likewise, many of the characters in Catch-22 try to make sense of incomprehensible situations: why they're fighting the war, the fact that they're forced to take the lives of others, the sheer madness of it all. This does not turn them into raving lunatics who see pink elephants but frighteningly normal seeming individuals who are all too in touch with reality. Good stuff.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12523089725254969787noreply@blogger.com