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Welcome to Ketch18, the home of a specific subset of Ketchums on the web! Why Ketch18 you ask? Well, even if you didn't ask, let me tell you...
The first chapter of "Catch-22" appeared in New World Writing, Issue No. 7, in 1955. It was titled "Catch-18". Several years later, while Joseph Heller was writing promotional copy at McCall's magazine, his agent submitted part of the novel to a few publishers. His editor, Robert Gottlieb, who was then at Simon & Schuster, accepted it. When the novel came out in October 1961, its title was changed to Catch-22" to avoid confusing it with Leon Uris's novel "Mila 18" published at the same time.
So, 18 came first, and by Heller's definition, "Catch-22" (or Ketch-18) is any paradoxical, circular reasoning which "catches" its victim in its illogic and serves those who have made the law. So, welcome to our illogic!
As for the Moai, the enigmatic statues of Rapa Nui, we just think they look cool. Although cut-off from the rest of the world, the Rapa Nui people created a highly evolved, artistic and literate culture. Their supreme creations, the Moai, were carved from rough, hardened volcanic ash. On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons. More than 800 of the statues were created over a 300 year period - approximately 1300-1600 AD. They were somehow transported across the 7x14 mile island to rest on stone platforms placed on mountainsides and in sea caves.
At Ketch18, more than 7000 miles away in Seattle, the mystery of the Moai is alive and well. What's their significance to us? Well, they instill in us a deep sense of wonder, and they remind us to think big.
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