J.D. Salinger, requiescat in pace ...

[Carvill, John]

Thanks for that, Michael.

Shades of the Thatcher library from Citizen Kane, that Princeton story.

I must admit, I have read nothing of Salinger's except 'Catcher'. Is 'Franny and Zooey' worth a go? I wonder what all those unpublished novels are like, if they do exist?



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocean_Full_of_Bowling_Balls

"The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" is an unpublished work by J. D.
Salinger. It is about the death of Kenneth Caulfield, who would later
become Allie in The Catcher in the Rye.

This story is available only in the Princeton library. Those who wish
to read it must check in with two forms of ID with the librarian, and
are then supervised while they read the story behind the closed doors
of a special reading room. It will not be published until January 27,
2060 - fifty years after Salinger's death. (Princeton Library guide
pg. 2 line 5).


"sometimes I could almost murder Buddy for not having a phone," she said.
"It's so unnecessary.  How can a grown man live like that - no phone,
no anything?
No one has any desire to invade his privacy, if that's what he wants,
but I certainly don't think it's necessary to live like a hermit."  She stirred
irritably, and crossed her legs.  "It isn't even safe, for heaven's sake!
Suppose he broke his leg or something like that.  Way off in the woods
like that.  I worry about it all the time."

"You do, eh?  Which do you worry about?  His breaking a leg or
his not having a phone when you want him to?"

"I worry about both, young man, for your information." (Franny and Zooey, 77-78)