> 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

> 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)