RIP J.D. Salinger
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:48 pm
FUCK......Wonder how Holden is holding up, I'm sure the Glass kids are doing ok.
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RIP J.D. Salinger
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:06 pm
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:32 pm
WTF GG?
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:14 pm
It's the icon the hacker known as "The Laughing Man" uses in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV Series.Rock wrote:WTF GG?
The text going around the edge is a quote from Catcher in the Rye.
So it's a meta-quote of sorts.
I tried reading it and couldn't get into it.
But apparently he was a great literary genius, so it is a great loss.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:51 pm
Holden Caulfield wrote:I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddamn stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:36 pm
Apparently everyone who ever wrote anything worth reading during the 20th century is dying.
I loved Catcher in the Rye but if you have the chance to read any of Salinger's short stories do it. I particularly like "Teddy."
I loved Catcher in the Rye but if you have the chance to read any of Salinger's short stories do it. I particularly like "Teddy."
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:57 am
Gotya, text wasn't showing up..... figured I was having balls broken....
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:36 am
I thought this was pretty funny
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bu ... _mourn_j_d
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bu ... _mourn_j_d
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:55 am
I just want out point out that he hasn't published anything since the sixties, the literary genius has been lost for 45 years. The death of the man is, well, just the death of a man. Sad in its own way but not a great loss to humankind.DerGolgo wrote:I tried reading it and couldn't get into it.
But apparently he was a great literary genius, so it is a great loss.
I've read some of his short stories and they were fine, but I never read Catcher In The Rye, maybe because the non sequitur of a name bothers me for some reason, maybe because I've had enough the 'coming of age' genre for a lifetime or two. I might jump on the Black Mariah and read it now though.