Quote: How can he see he’s got flies in his eyes if he’s got flies in his eyes?
The Quote appears one page after Joseph Heller explains the (in)famous catch in his novel Catch-22.
It reminds me of this (presumably) rather more famous quote from the King James Bible.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. (Matthew 7:5)
How can you see you have a beam in your own eye (or that there’s a mote in your brother’s) if you’ve got a beam in your own eye?
(That was a rhetorical question!)
What makes the Quote quiver?
The hook.
A Quiver Of Quotes 