NP: Catcher in the Rye

[Paul Mackin]

Tim and cj's comments started me skimming through an old copy lying around
here. Surpised how much was familiar. It's almost like reading Shakespeare,
something that's become part of collective memory.  Early on came that passage
about people he'd like to phone up and those he wouldn't care to. And the joke
about his old teacher who if he felt any better would have to lie down. I
tried to read with the old "magic eye." Skimmed through much  too fast to
catch much probably. But, near the end, one passage struck me as a
possibility.  Holden is recalling the dead brother. "Just because he's dead
you don't stop liking him, for God's sake--especially if they were about a
thousand time nicer than people you know that're alive and all." I couldn't
help coupling this with where he finds "Fuck You" written in a place old
Phoebe and other little kids might see it and wonder what it meant. Holden is
very angry at anyone who would do such a thing. Later the words are written on
the Egyptian Tomb at the MMA and he imagines that someone will even write it
on Holden's own tombstone. Of course at that time the phrase wasn't used quite
as much in public speech and writing as it was to be in the later days of
celebrity presidents,  fast living rock stars and assassins. Not  enough to
inspire a sane person to seek blood revenge but I thought I'd report it.

P.

cj hurtt wrot

> Paul Mackin (horrendous snip):
> Has it been claimed that other ideas presented in the book somehow
> >advocated assassinating American cult heros? I still have a copy here and
> >perhaps will reread it.
>
> it is possible to say the ideas in the book promoted the assasintion of
> American cult heroes. but you might need to be reading it with some sort of
> "magic eye" theory in mind. and, like the magic bullet theory the magic eye
> sounds nice but not everyone buys it.
>
> as for the conspiracy side...salinger did serve with kissinger in the
> counterintelligence corps. and hinkley sr was a world vision official, with
> possible ties to the cia and definite ties to jonestown, and was the friend
> of president bush version 1.0
> all this is from the great "big book of conspiracies" put out by pardox
> press. it's like a giant comic book fulla conpiracy theories.
>
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