... , to maintain self preservation. His joke about the German Lepage gun which glues formations of plans together temporarily injects comedy into the general fear of bombing Bologna. Yossarian believes and imagines himself at the focus of a massive conspiracy in a comically exaggerated form of paranoia. This seems ludicrous to the reader at first, but this thesis of Yossarian's is repeatedly being confirmed by the facts. The bombing of their own air base by Milo, Natley ... maintaining their prestige and power throughout. The American Military it seems is the real enemy, not the Germans, wh...

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