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"Don't contradict me," Colonel Cathcart said. "We're all in enough trouble." "I'm not contradicting you, sir." "Yes, you are. Even that's a contradiction." The above scene fragment is a direct quote from Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Although the scene is absent from Mike Nichols' adaptation of the book on film, yet it is a perfect illustration of how the writer is capable of twisting logical thinking out of its normal routine in every situation to make the outcome either absurd or contradictory – a notion that is greatly elaborated in the film as well. The case of contradiction mentioned earlier, however, is a performative catch, meaning that it only becomes a contradiction once it is said aloud. It is not a typical case of what Heller calls Catch-22. The famous catch - originally titled Catch-18, then changed to Catch-22 by Heller's editors in order to avoid confusion with Leon Uris' Mila 18 – is a contradiction in that statement "A" can only be realized if both condition "B" and its opposite are fulfilled at one and the same time. More specifically, the greatest catch that appears in both the book and the film is the impossibility of getting grounded and being sent home from war thus eluding combat duty and therefore getti