Salinger Dead at 91

[KaskadskyjKozak]

R.I.P.

 

 

[prole]

Like you actually read...

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Like you actually read...

 

More in a year than you will in a lifetime

[Pete_H]

I love the part in Catcher where all the kids are at some religious assembly and its all quiet and some kid lets out a huge fart.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

I love the part in Catcher where all the kids are at some religious assembly and its all quiet and some kid lets out a huge fart.

 

Your sig line is sick, dude.

 

 

[ivan]

same day as howard zinn eh? i'm sure you're a fan of him too kk

 

i never have understand why folks dig on catcher - if ever a fictional character needed to lick sack, holden was he!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

same day as howard zinn eh? i'm sure you're a fan of him too kk

 

i never have understand why folks dig on catcher - if ever a fictional character needed to lick sack, holden was he!

 

Yes, an annoying character, not too different from j_b or prole (I can't deal with reality and life!!!). But the book is well-written and very memorable and unique.

 

Did you read his short-stories? That Bananafish story is fucking disturbing.

[ivan]

nope - stopped reading fiction largely in college, 'roudn the same time i read catcher to see what all the historical fuss was about

 

my main memory of the book was that it seemed the oldest book i'd read to use so many dirty, dirty words

 

that and "stupid jerks"

[KaskadskyjKozak]

nope - stopped reading fiction largely in college, 'roudn the same time i read catcher to see what all the historical fuss was about

 

my main memory of the book was that it seemed the oldest book i'd read to use so many dirty, dirty words

 

that and "stupid jerks"

 

strange, I had a different impression for some reason. Didn't Trash say you walked around quoting Beowulf?

[ivan]

yeah, roudn the time i started climbing/doing stupd long hikes i got a recording of seamus heanney reciting his translation and it stuck - not the whole thing yet unfortunately, but enough to cover the snow creek lot to the base of the base of the wall

[LostCamKenny]

same day as howard zinn eh?

 

the man changed the way a generation thought of history... an amazing intellectual! rest easy old boy!

[kevbone]

R.I.P.

 

 

 

Who?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just kidding. RIP

[olyclimber]

phonies

[tvashtarkatena]

yeah, roudn the time i started climbing/doing stupd long hikes i got a recording of seamus heanney reciting his translation and it stuck - not the whole thing yet unfortunately, but enough to cover the snow creek lot to the base of the base of the wall

 

Trust me, it's enough.

[tvashtarkatena]

In the beginning, I had to decide whether Ivan was Too Fawking Annoying to climb with. Then I went home, spied my own handsome countenance in the mirror, and said to myself "Now WTF are you on about?"

[dennyt]

Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger

 

CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. "He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers," said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don't have to look at them for four years. "There will never be another voice like his." Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.