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by Y_Y 813 days ago
> Yossarian's censoring rules

> Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. (Heller, '61)

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Yes. An excellent character in an excellent book. Thanks for this.