who are we?

[Joe Allonby]

Sorry. I found him insufferable and couldn't buy the crap I was taught
about how he was supposed to speak to my youthful alienation.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> seriously?  you guys didt'n like Holden Caulfield?
>
> holy Cow, I found that book on my folks's shelf in like, hmmm, 1965 or 6 and
> it was pretty much the best book I read till _Vineland_
>
> Edgar Marsala's fart during the speech?
>
> the funeral director, "whenever he's in trouble he just asks
> Jesus to send him a few stiffs"
>
> the military boyfriend of one of Holden's girl chums: "His name was
> Commander Blop or something,
> he was one of those guys who thinks he has to grab your hand really
> hard when he shakes hands"
>
> Hazle Weatherfield?
>
> "me and Stradlater just had a little goddam tiff"
>
> "I'm the little old goddam Governor's son, and I was born to dance"
>
> "Hey, listen, I'll come over Christmas Eve, okay?  Trimma goddam tree"
>
>
> - "Souvenirs out of a childhood Doc had never felt he wanted much to
> escape from"- IV, p 125
>