Ready for change of topic? We are taken back to Snowden's funeral right after the Avignon mission. After landing, the naked Yossarian is cared for by Doc Daneeka. He continues to go about his business naked and even watches Snowden's funeral in the nude, seated up in a tree.
Milo finds Yossarian during the funeral and asks him to taste something. Because Yossarian refuses to come down, Milo climbs up the tree. He gives Yossarian chocolate-covered cotton to try. Yossarian spits it back in his face. Milo is desperate to serve this chocolate-covered cotton to the men and get it off his hands. During the funeral, the chaplain who is performing the ceremony looks up and sees Yossarian naked in the tree. He is incredulous. Yossarian mistakes his gestures of surprise as the culmination of a very emotional funeral.
He begs Yossarian to try the chocolate-covered cotton again, but Yossarian refuses. Finally, Yossarian suggests that Milo sell the cotton back to the government by bribing them. At first, Milo is indignant at the thought of wronging the government.
But then he remembers that he's a scum bucket, scalawag, and a ratfink. He realizes that he could make a profit and that making a profit cannot possibly be against the law. Milo leaves to start his bribery but quickly shimmies up the tree again to tell Yossarian to please start wearing clothes again or else it might start a naked trend and then Milo will never get the cotton off his hands.
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Nonetheless, he has no problem doing business with America's primary European enemy, Nazi Germany. Milo even profits from specific battles. When the Allies plan to bomb a highway bridge at Orvieto, Milo arranges to conduct the attack for them. Having arranged all the details, Milo has no trouble convincing both sides to furnish their own men and equipment.
He thus makes a nice profit by signing his name twice. This is the raid on which Mudd, the "dead man" in Yossarian's tent, is killed. Even more despicable than the Orvieto deal is Milo's arrangement with the Germans to bomb his own squadron when the syndicate's cash flow runs low, due to excessive investment in Egyptian cotton.
This time it appears that Milo may have gone too far.
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