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JD SALINGER January 29 2010
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
I’m going to take that same attitude of Holden Caulfield and not really get into it for this entry. If you hadn’t heard already, JD Salinger - author of one of my favorite books, “Catcher in the Rye” - has died. This news may not matter to most, as he already seemed gone having withdrawn from public life decades ago. But all I have to say is that as far as shaping perspectives, Catcher was probably one of the most influential literary works. Amidst the cynicism and phoniness, Holden was THE advocate of being forever young.
I’ll end this one the same way I started it. But this time, with one of my favorite lines.
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” - JD Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
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