RIP J.D Salinger

[Nina~ 431]

Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.

Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Agency. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.

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[*JG* 2]

Oh, I am saddened by this. R.I.P. Mr. S.

[*JG* 2]

“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that #######. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”

Wonder if they did?????

[Nagishkaw 510]

[Calypso 464]

"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."

Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17, spoken by Holden Caulfield

I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains.

Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13 "Catcher in the Rye" was the report assigned to me by our professor in Literary Analysis when I was in 3rd year college.

When it was my younger brother's time, he bought one copy of that book.

Requiescit in pace, J.D. Salinger.

Edited January 28, 2010 by Arbind.Ariadne

[scandal 951]

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ####. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

The Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield in Chapter 9

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

The Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield in Chapter 9

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

The Catcher in the Rye

Mr. Antolini in Chapter 24

[Teacher Mark 53]

I can't believe he was still alive!

RIP

All morons hate it when you call them a moron. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6

Edited January 29, 2010 by Mr. Saigon