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Yossarian and 'I Yearn for You Tragically' from "Catch-22". Yossarian writes 'I yearn for you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army' on a censored letter.

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Yossarian and 'I Yearn for You Tragically'

Yossarian writes 'I yearn for you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army' on a censored letter. The phrase is a parody of romantic longing and a example of Yossarian's creative sabotage of the censorship process. It also implicates the chaplain in the forgeries.