YES!!! I beat WTL to the headline!

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> YES!!! I beat WTL to the headline!


LOL. You gotta be quick to beat WTL!

I almost posted it about 10 minutes ago when I saw it on CNN, but I thought "big deal"...

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Why would I give a fuck about J.D. Salinger dying?

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Coming Soon: "Catcher in The Rye: The Movie", starring Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

That catcher in the rye book was required reading in college and I'll tell you what - either my professor read way to much into that book or Salinger was a fucking Mensa level writer. I remember some bullshit about when Holden gave somebody a buck, it was symbolizing a deer, which symbolized is soul, so he really sold his soul for a hat or some queer shit like that. I just looked over at my buddy and said "What the fuck is he talking about?".

Of course, the paper I had to write on it was about "themes and meaning", so I spent a week just pulling stuff out of my ass and ended up getting an A, plus the comment "some of the most astute observations I've ever read about this book". My buddy and I laugh to this day about that class.

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My English lit 226 professor (female) had a strange obsession about Moby Dick...

I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.

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> I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What
> I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they
> start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re
> running and they don’t look where they’re going I
> have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
> That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher
> in the rye and all.


WTL = political version of the Catcher in the Rye, daily striving to keep Republicans and others from going over the cliff (and alternatively tossing them over the cliff when the mood strikes).

Let me be the first to add:

Wormfood.

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> > I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.
> What
> > I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they
> > start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re
> > running and they don’t look where they’re going
> I
> > have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
> > That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the
> catcher
> > in the rye and all.
>
>
> WTL = political version of the Catcher in the Rye,
> daily striving to keep Republicans and others from
> going over the cliff (and alternatively tossing
> them over the cliff when the mood strikes).

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

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> That catcher in the rye book was required reading
> in college


What college was that? We read that book in 7th grade English class.

If Salinger had never written that book John Lennon would still be alive.

Well, if he's got any unpublished shit - and he apparently do - it will now come out.

Eventually.

All work and no play makes Harry a dull boy.color>
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That was my second foray into that book. I too read it in in middle school. It just happened to be my douchey professor's favorite book, that's why. But what do you expect from DeVry?

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> > grade English class.
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> That was my second foray into that book. I too
> read it in in middle school. It just happened to
> be my douchey professor's favorite book, that's
> why. But what do you expect from DeVry?


I am a Devry graduate and I am here to tell you, 'you don't know shit about Salinger'! jk

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(Click picture for full-size... I don't know why you would, though)

I never read Catcher in the Rye in school. Though to be fair, most of my childhood was spent in a Reebok factory. :-(

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> I never read Catcher in the Rye in school. Though
> to be fair, most of my childhood was spent in a
> Reebok factory. :-(


not funny

the question is, what is that little battle toad like creature doing with a hand held auger?

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+1 It isn't funny. I worked 14 hours six days a week for .25 cents an hour. At least it was better working conditions than the children that worked in the GAP factory.

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> week for .25 cents an hour. At least it was better
> working conditions than the children that worked
> in the GAP factory.


still not funny.

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Hunter of the Snark is awesome artwork.

Catcher in the Rye=most overrated work of literature in the history of the written word. Good riddance. See ya' in hell, J.D.!

...let me add to the list of overrated writers: John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Allen Ginsberg, John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck and John Steinbeck.

Tortilla Flat?......more like "Tortilla SHAT"!

The Great Gatsby?,,,,,,more like the Great SHATSBY!

Let me tell you something....if these books hadn't been pushed on me when I was in school, I might not be such a harsh critic. But God Dammit, I fucking hate John Steinbeck and F. Scott Fitzgerald. If the teachers had just said, "hey, there's some books over there", I probably would have read more when I was younger. It's the fact they shove this shit down your throat, making you write book reports and shit, that turns so many kids off to reading....which is why I hate that era of American writing...that's ALL they made us read when I was in school. Puke!

Give me The Metamorphosis or Naked Lunch....kids in high school would dig that shit I'm sure more than the great fucking Gatsby. Puke, puke, puke, and double puke.

senior happiness is on rampage? he shall be smoking while doing so. yes, he shall.

tell you one thing...The Catcher in the Rye is no Murder at the Super Bowl...

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> Let me tell you something....if these books hadn't
> been pushed on me when I was in school, I might
> not be such a harsh critic. But God Dammit, I
> fucking hate John Steinbeck and F. Scott
> Fitzgerald. If the teachers had just said, "hey,
> there's some books over there", I probably would
> have read more when I was younger. It's the fact
> they shove this shit down your throat, making you
> write book reports and shit, that turns so many
> kids off to reading....which is why I hate that
> era of American writing...that's ALL they made us
> read when I was in school. Puke!
>
> Give me The Metamorphosis or Naked Lunch....kids
> in high school would dig that shit I'm sure more
> than the great fucking Gatsby. Puke, puke, puke,
> and double puke.



Just look at "The Grapes of Wrath". What a boring novel.....just pushing a political agenda.

You wanna talk puke... Ernest Hemingway. Gag city.. vomit, vomit, and then some.

I'd rather be chopped up in a food processor than read about a rising sun that has never done me any good.

Give me people magazine.

I'll say this for Ernest Hemingway...he was a tough guy writer. We don't have that kind of American author anymore...the hard-drinking, womanizing, ready to throw hands man's man writer like Hemingway or Mailer or Bukowski. Instead, we get a queen like David Sedaris and a femme with a tweed jacket like Dave Eggers. Triple puke!

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> I'll say this for Ernest Hemingway...he was a
> tough guy writer. We don't have that kind of
> American author anymore...the hard-drinking,
> womanizing,

I'll thank Hemingway for the Bellinis I drank at Harry's Bar in Venice.

Or, maybe I shouldn't; I almost fell into a canal walking back to my pension.


> Instead, we
> get a queen like David Sedaris

I like David Sedaris. "Holidays On Ice"..."Naked"...

His mother serves cocktails to the teachers who are "visiting" to discuss David's OCD and his penchant for licking door knobs and light switches.... haha.

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> I'll thank Hemingway for the Bellinis I drank at
> Harry's Bar in Venice.

Ciao bella! Grazie for-a stopping-a by-a my bar!

this is a real writer. Not some one-trick recluse pony.
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BOSTON (Jan. 29) -- The obituaries that have followed the death of J.D. Salinger invariably mention the author's infamous reclusiveness. More than a few also discuss the legions of fans who over the years have traveled to his home in Cornish, N.H., skulking around the edges of his 90-acre compound in the hope of spotting their literary hero. The place is surprisingly easy to find, but such was Salinger's legend, and legendary wrath, that the final few yards to his door presented another kind of obstacle. At least, that's how it went for me.

In 1953, two years after "The Catcher in the Rye" had made him famous, Salinger fled Manhattan for the tiny town, which is the kind of place where everyone knows the neighbors and yet tries to avoid speaking with them. Soon thereafter, he insisted that his photograph be removed from his books. He began declining interviews. Then, in 1965, at the age of 46, Salinger stopped sharing his writing altogether. "There is a marvelous peace in not publishing," he told a reporter a decade later, one of the last times he would speak publicly. "It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure."

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Kafka was awesome...Investigations of a Dog was my favorite.

which is the kind of place where everyone knows the neighbors and yet tries to avoid speaking with them.

Sounds a lot like Fairfaxunderground.com

The Seattle Tribune said he died from double fisting his own rectum.

This guy Ernie, in this excerpt from The Catcher In The Rye Sounds EXACTLY like Obama!

Ernie's a big fat colored guy that plays the piano. He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you're a big shot or a celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano. He's so good he's almost corny, in fact. I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. I certainly like to hear him play, but sometimes you feel like turning his goddam piano over. I think it's because sometimes when he plays, he sounds like the kind of guy that won't talk to you unless you're a big shot....

Even though it was so late, old Ernie's was jampacked. Mostly with prep school jerks and college jerks. Almost every damn school in the world gets out earlier for Christmas vacation than the schools I go to. You could hardly check your coat, it was so crowded. It was pretty quiet, though, because Ernie was playing the piano. It was supposed to be something holy, for God's sake, when he sat down at the piano. Nobody's that good. About three couples, besides me, were waiting for tables, and they were all shoving and standing on tiptoes to get a look at old Ernie while he played. He had a big damn mirror in front of the piano, with this big spotlight on him, so that everybody could watch his face while he played. You couldn't see his fingers while he played--just his big old face. Big deal. I'm not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it was, he was really stinking it up. He was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes, and a lot of other very tricky stuff that gives me a pain in the ass. You should've heard the crowd, though, when he was finished. You would've puked. They went mad. They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny.

Anyway, when he was finished, and everybody was clapping their heads off, old Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, humble bow. Like as if he was a helluva humble guy, besides being a terrific piano player. It was very phony--I mean him being such a big snob and all. In a funny way, though, I felt sort of sorry for him when he was finished. I don't even think he knows any more when he's playing right or not. It isn't all his fault. I partly blame all those dopes that clap their heads off--they'd foul up anybody, if you gave them a chance.