“He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.”
“Let me get this straight… you didn’t have a cat? Did you get a cat just so that you wouldn’t have to tell me you were a virgin?”I pressed my lips together to keep them from trembling. I nodded. The look on his face was somewhere between shock and amusement. Hewas flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.”
“My gast was pretty well flabbered.”
“Let him be floored, O Lord, thought Kugel.Let him be stunned.Let him be flabber-fucking-gasted.”
“But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.”
“And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.”