do you happen to know why he was busted to private and is only a corporal now?” “Yes,” said Yossarian. “He poisoned the squadron.” Milo went pale again. “He did what?” “He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don’t know the difference between good and bad. Every man in the squadron was sick. Missions were canceled.” “Well!” Milo exclaimed, with thin-lipped disapproval. “He certainly found out how wrong he was, didn’t he?” “On the contrary,” Yossarian corrected. “He found out how right he was. We packed it away by
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