How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"Why isn't he wearing clothes?" General Dreedle demanded […].
"Why isn't he wearing clothes?" Colonel Korn demanded of Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren.
"A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him," Captain Wren replied. "He swears he's never going to wear a uniform again."
"A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him," Captain Korn reported directly to General Dreedle. "His uniform hasn't come back from the laundry yet." (21.47-52)
Colonel Korn changes the words of Captains Piltchard and Wren when explaining why Yossarian isn't wearing any clothes. He does this to lessen the absurdity of Yossarian's situation and to save face in front of his idol. He wants to gain favor with Dreedle so he can advance professionally.
Quote #11
"Oooooooooooooooooooooh," Yossarian moaned a fourth time, this time loudly enough for everyone to hear him distinctly.
"Are you crazy?" Nately hissed vehemently. "You'll get into trouble."
"Oooooooooooooooooooooh," Dunbar answered Yossarian from the opposite end of the room.
Nately recognized Dunbar's voice. The situation was not out of control, and he turned away with a small moan. "Ooh."
"Oooooooooooooooooooooh," Dunbar moaned back at him again.
"Oooooooooooooooooooooh," Nately moaned out loud in exasperation when he realized that he had just moaned.
"Oooooooooooooooooooooh," Dunbar moaned back at him again.
"Oooooooooooooooooooooh," someone entirely new chimed in from another section of the room, and Nately's hair stood on end.
Yossarian and Dunbar both replied while Nately cringed and hunted about futilely for some hole in which to hide and take Yossarian with him. A sprinkling of people were smothering laughter. An elfin impulse possessed Nately and he moaned intentionally the next time there was a lull. Another new voice answered. The flavor of disobedience was titillating, and Nately moaned deliberately again, the next time he could squeeze one in edgewise. Still another new voice echoed him. The room was boiling irrepressibly into bedlam. (21.77-85)
Yossarian's moan – which starts off as an expression of lust for General Dreedle's nurse – is not directly understood by anybody. However, it quickly becomes an instrument for a new form of communication. Using Yossarian's wordless moan, the men communicate their desire to disobey orders to each other. Even though the original meaning of the moan is lost, it takes on a new meaning that is understood by everyone.
Quote #12
"But Milo," Major Danby interrupted timidly, "we're at war with Germany and those are German planes."
"They are no such thing!" Milo retorted furiously. "Those planes belong to the syndicate, and everybody has a share. (24.40-41)
Milo's obsession with the syndicate has blinded him to the fact that the Germans are America's enemy and that doing with business with them is against the wartime spirit. He fails to see them as enemies; he can only see them as shareholders in his syndicate.