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[jerrybrockman]

From the book, Catch-22, the protagonist anti-Hero, Captain Yossarian goes to the psychiatrist in order to try and get out of combat duty. The attempt fails because of Catch-22. The doc explains, (paraphrasing)”Only an insane man would want to go into combat, and since you don’t want to go, you are therefore perfectly sane, and therefore qualified for combat duty.”

Yossarian is beside himself. “Well what if I tell you that I want combat?”

“Then there’s nothing I can do,” says the doc, “it’s all in regulation 22, that’s how they get ya.”