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 This is the end!
+=== Joseph Heller parody ===
+Yossarian looked at him soberly and tried another approach. “What if we lowered the 9th to be 5/3 above the 4th?”
+“We sure can,” Doc Daneeka said.
+“And then all the chords will be in tune?” Yossarian asked.
+“No. Not all of them.”
+“You mean there’s a catch?”
+“Sure there’s a catch,” Doc Daneeka replied. “Catch-22. Any 5-limit just intonation major scale isn’t really in tune.”
+There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that the major 9th can't be in tune with both the fourth and the fifth. 9/4 makes a sharp 5/3 with the fourth and needs to be flattened by 22 cents to 20/9. But 20/9 makes a flat 3/2 with the fifth and needs to be sharpened by 22 cents to 9/4.
+Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
+“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.
+“It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.
 == See also ==