Just...Wow.
Doc Daneeka wrenched himself away. "Don't you dare talk to me like that. I'm a liscensed physician."
"Then keep your stupid liscenced physician's mouth shut and listen to what they told me up at the hospital. I'm crazy. Did you know that?"
"So?"
"Really crazy."
"So?"
"I'm nuts. Cuckoo. Don't you understand? I'm off my rocker. They sent someone else home in place of me by mistake. They've got a liscenced psychiatrist up at the hospital who examined me, and that was his verdict. I really am insane."
"So?"
"So?" Yossarian was puzzled by Doc Daneeka's inability to comprehend. "Don't you see what that means? Now you can take me off combat duty and send me home. They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"
"Who else will go?"
"Then keep your stupid liscenced physician's mouth shut and listen to what they told me up at the hospital. I'm crazy. Did you know that?"
"So?"
"Really crazy."
"So?"
"I'm nuts. Cuckoo. Don't you understand? I'm off my rocker. They sent someone else home in place of me by mistake. They've got a liscenced psychiatrist up at the hospital who examined me, and that was his verdict. I really am insane."
"So?"
"So?" Yossarian was puzzled by Doc Daneeka's inability to comprehend. "Don't you see what that means? Now you can take me off combat duty and send me home. They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"
"Who else will go?"