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CHAPTER 1 THE TEXAN
It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice. The doctors were
puzzled by the fact that it wasn’t quite jaundice. If it became jaundice they could treat it. If it didn’t e
jaundice and went away they could discharge him. But this just being short of jaundice all the time confused
them.
Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes,
panied by brisk and serious Nurse Duckett, one of the ward nurses who didn’t like Yossarian. They read
the chart at the foot of the bed and asked impatiently about the pain. They seemed irritated when he told them it
was exactly the same.
“Still no movement?” the full colonel demanded.

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The doctors exchanged a look when he shook his head.
“Give him another pill.”
Nurse Duckett made a note to give Yossarian another pill, and the four of them moved along to the next bed.
None of the nurses liked Yossarian. Actually, the pain in his liver had gone away, but Yossarian didn’t say
anything and the doctors never suspected. They just suspected that he had been moving his bowels and not
telling anyone.
Yossarian had everything he wanted in the hospital. The food wasn’t too bad, and his meals were brought to him
in bed. There were extra rations of fresh meat, and during the hot part of the afternoon he and the others were
served chilled fruit juice or chilled chocolate milk. Apart from the doctors and the nurses, no one ever disturbed
him. For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each
day lying around idly with a clear conscience. He fortable in the hospital, and it was easy to stay on
because he always ran a temperature of 101. He was even fortable than Dunbar, who had to keep
falling down on hi