ok, sorry, one more link, but it's Delillo, not Salinger...

[Michael Bailey]

review of new Don Delillo book has a paragraph I must share:

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Point-Omega/ba-p/2124

Why get over it, though? Why say that history exists only in the past?
Events enter people's lives unbidden; they don't necessarily leave
when you tell them to. They drop down or slither into individual or
collective imaginations, colonizing memory. They may stay there,
waiting, changing shape, speaking new languages, resisting translation
back into the ordinary speech of business, domestic life, schedules,
habit, warping ordinary traumas of love or money -- the loss of a job,
the breakup of a marriage, a mere argument with a spouse or a son or a
daughter or a friend -- until they seem too big to live out, live
through, too big to think about, just something you'd do better to
forget.




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-- "Nonetheless.  Nonetheless.  None.  The.  Less!" - Loudon Trott to
Nicky Finn (in "Who's That Girl")