Corporal Snark

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Corporal Snark is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22. Corporal Snark was originally the mess sergeant. To prove that the soldiers had bad taste, he poisoned their sweet potatoes with soap chips, causing a diarrhea outbreak. Because of this, he was demoted and replaced by Milo Minderbinder. Snark felt he proved himself correct because the men ate the soap and came back for seconds.

Later on, when a mission to Bologna seems imminent, Yossarian asks Snark to put soap in the sweet potatoes again in order to cause delays, successfully giving the soldiers another bout of diarrhea.

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Catch-22	Catch-22 • sequel Closing Time • author Joseph Heller • Catch-22 (film) • Catch 22 (play) • Catch-22 (logic)

Named characters	Yossarian • Aarfy • Appleby • Captain Black • The Chaplain • Colonel Cargill • Colonel Cathcart • Clevinger • Nurse Cramer • Major Danby • Doc Daneeka • Major —— de Coverley • General Dreedle • Dobbs • Nurse Duckett • Dunbar • Dori Duz • Lieutenant Engle • Captain Flume • Gus & Wes • Havermeyer • Huple • Hungry Joe • Kid Sampson • Sergeant Knight • Corporal Kolodny • Colonel Korn • Kraft • Luciana • Major Major Major Major • McWatt • Michaela • Milo Minderbinder • Colonel Moodus • Mudd (aka the Dead Man in Yossarian's tent) • Nately • Orr • General Peckem • Piltchard & Wren • Major Sanderson • Lieutenant/General Scheisskopf • Mrs Scheisskopf • Corporal Snark • Snowden • The Soldier Who Sees Everything Twice (aka Giuseppe) • Dr. Stubbs • Sergeant Towser • Lieutenant Travers • Corporal Whitcomb • Chief White Halfoat • ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen

Unnamed characters	The C.I.D. Investigators • Dreedle's girl • The Maid with the lime-colored panties • Nately's Whore • Nately's Whore's Kid Sister • The Old Woman in Rome • The Old Man in Rome • The Soldier in white • The Texan • Yo-Yo's Roomies

Important locations	Pianosa • Rome • Ferrara • Bologna

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