I recently read that popular pre-internet author J.D. Salinger passed away. He was apparently the author of the popular book Catcher in the Rye. The name sounded familiar, so I googled it to remember what the cover looked like. I usually remember books by their cover, because that is often a good way to judge if the content/brand will appeal to you. We must judge books by their covers in the modern world because of the rapid production output of the information economy.
I found the cover, then ‘remembered the book’ from elementary/middle school/high school. I mainly remember it because it was white, and people used to doodle on it. Some bro highlighted the entire cover neon yellow, back in the era of the ‘school supplies arms race’ [via Yikes pencils/uniball pens/mechanical pencils/erasable pens]. The book also reminds me of ‘a book that some bro would list in their fave books section of their facebook profile.’ Feel like I don’t have very many positive experiences with the brand extension of Catcher in the Rye.
Apparently, the book is the story of some ‘rich kid/misfit’ who ‘doesn’t fit in’ and ‘sees thru all the bull shit in ppl.’ His name is Holden Caulfield. I think he was meant to be some sort of character who enables people to ‘project themselves’ as the alt-protagonist. Think this is an important feature in critically-acclaimed/universally accepted works of art.
Holden Caulfield seemed like he was a ‘snarky’ bro. Unfortunately, they didn’t have blogs back then, so he wasn’t able to become a snarkblogger and escape from society by ‘sitting at home on his laptop and commenting abt how sillie stuff/people are.’
Read the book a long time ago. Had to read wikipedia to find all this stuff out, but honestly feel like I got a ‘good enough’ experience by just skimming the plot + reading miscellaneous background information. From what I have read, the book was just sort of a long ‘bitchfest’ written in 1st person, back before every1 was into ‘bitching about their own lives’.’
Catcher in the Rye seems relevant because it is ‘classic alt literature.’ Probably a book with semi-important ideas that was at a low enough reading level for developing alternative spirits to read. I feel like the only thing I remember about the book was that the bro ‘went to visit a prostitute’, and that seemed interesting to me since I was still learning about ‘how to cum/make sex with other ppl’, so the concept of paid sex professionals was very intriguing to me.
I am not sure if ‘the brand’ of the book was very marketable. Maybe a few decent ideas in there, but it never really inspired the rabid fan base that the Royal Tenenbaums did. Feel like the Holden Caulfield costume never really ‘caught on’ much like the Richie Tenenbaum costume.
Photo by jaimehaire
Some people say that the popular film ‘Garden State’ was just trying 2 rip off Catchy in the RyeRye.
Do yall think that books will play an important role in carving the ‘alternative spirit of tomorrow’? Or will most tweens just chill on the internet forever?
Wonder which author will be remembered forever-er… J.D. Salinger or R.L. Stine?
I think the Goosebumps brand will never be forgotten, even by ppl who didn’t read any of the books. They really built a brand–they even put tactile goosebumps on the cover of the book.
Do yall think book covers are better/easier to judge before they are made into a major motion picture?
Or afterwards?
I am not sure what today’s ‘classic alt’ literature would be. Would tweens read Vonnegut or would they rather read Twilight/Harry Potter?
Is the Lord of the Rings trilogy still a ‘good book series’, or is it better to just watch it on HDTVblu-ray?
Has Catcher in the Rye turned into ‘glorified required reading’?
Who is the greatest alt writer of all time? Ayn Rand? Tom Clancy? Tao Lin? Chuck Palahniuk? JGrish?
Are books only ‘worth reading’ if they have been turned in2 a movie?
Are books with alternative characters overrated/overvalued because they were written before web 2.0 allowed humans to follow other humans as if they were tragic/inspiring/interesting characters?
What books were u required to read in ur public/private school?
Should I buy a kindle/audiobook player?
Are books ‘fun’?
Are books ‘green’?
Are blogs the new books/magazines?
‘Not to take away from the life of JD Sally, but Catcher in the Rye should have been re-made/adapted into a modern alt tween flick/MTV series in order to see if the elements of the story truly stood the test of time.’
-a progressive critic
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RIP J.D.
Wasn’t he a hermit?
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//////////Reply by Alex
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
@Miguelito, Yup.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
@Alex, PS RIP Howard Zinn… Fuckin read that shit when I dropped acid at coachella, and had to go back and chill in the Scion X. Fuckin opened my eyes bro.
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//////////Reply by fredbro
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 6:34 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, yeah bro i candyflipped at coach, started reading freakonomics. had to go back to heineken tent to relieve boner [via cold shower theory]
//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
@Miguelito, The Perks of Being a MEME flower
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lol first
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//////////Reply by dave eggers
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 10:36 am
@dave eggers, what a bummer
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GRRRRRRRRRRRR
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lol’d quite a bit @ this post thanks carles
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//////////Reply by grizzlycunt
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
@ke$ha, there are no Mick Jagger look-a-like here. Kick rocks
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shitty over rated book, wahhhhhh so deep and emo
now we have to listen to douchbags gush about how this defined a generation for a few months. gr8
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//////////Reply by Z
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:55 am
@Gregg G., I feel like you’re someone I could easily ‘hate’ and cast as an ‘overeager entry-leveler’.
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//////////Reply by Gregg G.
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
@Z, i feel like ur someone who identifies with angsty emo teens and likes things that you think you’re sposed to like via shitty buzz bands and books that make you think you’re unique
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//////////Reply by jig
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
@Gregg G., a few months? more like 36 hrs topz, bro… this wasnt MJ Salinger
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//////////Reply by x
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 6:05 am
@jig, pretty sure he’s gon last longer than MJ considering the book was published in 1951 and people are still gushing over how this defined whatever generation of the moment. Everyone’s always going to be pissy pissy little teenagers. Talk about timeless.
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted February 1st, 2010 at 4:21 pm
@x, ur wrong it’s been a couple days and this story has already fallen off the news stack. and theyre still talkin mj via grammys
Carles is just a big fucking PHONY who probably went to some rich kids school that parents send their kids to because they dont want to see them for four years.
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//////////Reply by Jack
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:47 am
@F.KafkaInternational, hilarious! nailed it….the style i meme, i mean, ‘i mean.’ that is, if it was a solidly crappy lit joke…and not just mean.
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//////////Reply by Woah!
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
@F.KafkaInternational,
Wow dumb fuck, get of this site.
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//////////Reply by Alex
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
@Woah!, Read Catcher in the Rye.
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
‘Ha.’
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JD Sallinger totes ripped off JK Toole with that whole hunter’s cap meme
Feel like Edward from the Twilight series should play Holdenbro and pull a ‘Heath Ledger’ and get 2 involved with the role then od on some pills.
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//////////Reply by Sarah Right Now
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:20 am
@\\\\\, a happy ending, then?
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//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
@Sarah Right Now, a movie script ending (via benjamin gibbard)
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//////////Reply by Kenny G
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
@stillnessisthememe,
seems really bleak, for me personally
http://www.vimeo.com/7323948
RIP simple grammar/lo-fi memes
gotta admit i felt pretty connected to holden
even wrote a song on the Acoustic Guitar for a presentation i did on the book as a tween
not sure if i should feel embarrassed that i fit a cliche so well, or justify it as some sort of ‘protoalt experience’
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//////////Reply by smokymtn dbldip
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
@apreludes, a genui9ne alt tween trying to find himself. high five
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“We must judge books by their covers in the modern world because of the rapid production output of the information economy.” hahaha
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Not a fan.
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//////////Reply by women's studies 101
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:46 am
@John Lennon, lol
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//////////Reply by Jack
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:48 am
@John Lennon, giggle
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
@John Lennon,
u kick ass
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also just want to give mad props to this line: “Are books with alternative characters overrated/overvalued because they were written before web 2.0 allowed humans to follow other humans as if they were tragic/inspiring/interesting characters?”
mad props
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//////////Reply by OhNoOhMy
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
@apreludes, mad, indeed
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aaaaaa
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my newspaper article beat you this morning, carles. web is dead!
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shit
this guy was too popular anyway in Russia
h8 him
and Frédéric Beigbeder and Palahniuk and Coelho and Murakami.
Guy de Maupassant <3
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//////////Reply by visiting friends yll
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:49 am
@KissaVotka,
Maupassant is a popular bro too
RIP JD
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//////////Reply by KissaVotka
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:51 am
@visiting friends yll, eeeeeerrrrrmmmm i h8 readdin’
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say cheese and die crls
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//////////Reply by pinkusmuginkus
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
@women’s studies 101, again
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Catcher in the Rye is the shitty bay area Punk Rock bible [via not having a college education and Catchy Rye being the only piece of adult literature you've been exposed to, except maybe for the book you were able to pick for a report, maybe Slaughterhouse Five or something but you couldn't write songs about SlotHaus5 unless you were prog-rock or something]
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//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:57 am
@Knobs, and whatever u can pick up at the bookstore under the Channing parking garage
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//////////Reply by huaglaggaglaglaghagl
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
@Knobs, Hehehe, cut it out, guys, you’re killing me. I remember living in Berkeley. Thank god I moved to NY.
And hey, Max. What up. I know you’re reading this.
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When people list this as their favourite book I know they havn’t read a book since high school. Or any book they havn’t had to. Feel supirior, then I realise I havn’t either.
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//////////Reply by jimmm
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
@megadeathfromabove, I laughed out loud. Thanks bro.
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Feel like JD ripped off Steph Meyer, but Steph Meyer was definitely more successful [via her novels being made into major motion pictures/memes/tween brands]
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Salinger was involved in “De-Nazification” which everybody knows really meant Project Paperclip/Odessa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
which is why he was a “recluse,” why all his stories are about ritual child abuse and why they made Mark David Chapman kill the Beatles, y’all!
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//////////Reply by KRS-alt
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
@overthehillaltbro, how do i follow on your path of insight??
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Wow, all the h8 in these comments, go fuck your self. Stupid ass honkies
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feel like ‘wikipedia brown’ would = alt lit/’appeal to tweens’ in the 2k10s
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
@Nipslip, bj novak has written a wikipedia brown book.
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//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
@Nipslip, das racist has written a wikipedia brown ‘rap’
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Catchy in the Rye Rye (Best HRO shortening ever) is not even the best thing Salinger ever wrote. A whole bunch of tween phonies who say it’s their fave book prolly never even read it but heard it was banned at one time.
Love the idea of CatchyRye as a Disney show, h8 idea of CatchyRye: The Film.
Salinger had an affair with a 60′s altbaguette who wrote a book called “An 18 year old looks back on life”? You and old Sally coulda been bros4life, a relaish that woulda ended yesterday, unforch.
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I vote for Tom Robbins as best alt-author evr
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It’s alt to hate. It’s also alt not learn relevant issues. Guess I hate life. Think I should have stopped smoking pot last week. Realize the world sucks
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shut the FUCK up
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any day’s a perfect day for bananafish
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//////////Reply by brittany
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
@shotshotshotshots, lol
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Feel like Holdy Caulfield is a real life David Chappelle.
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huh?
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You alt-pfucks wouldn’t no a decent bookcover if u got hit in the face w/ it.
afghani-phish-stan
banana-phish-stand!!
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The only contemporary novels I find worth reading are the ones that simply can’t be made into movies, via postmodernism/metafiction/fragmented narrative (ie. House of Leaves, The Satanic Verses). If you’re just giving me a straight chronological narrative, might as well just make a movie about it so I only have to waste two-three hours of my life to hear your shitty opinions (ie. Benjamin Button, anything with Tom Hanks, all young adult literature).
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//////////Reply by grizzlycunt
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
@sdj, EEEEE EEE EEEE will make a great movie.
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//////////Reply by Grody
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 7:09 pm
@sdj, seriously?
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//////////Reply by sdj
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 7:35 pm
@Grody,
No. I like The Road.
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feel like catchers in the rye bread is/was/will continue to be way ‘overrated.’ feel like it’s the kind of thing u read 1nce when ur a tween and love it because it’s really ‘relatable’ and u feel like the author ‘really gets u.’
then u ‘grow up’ [via balanced hormones] and reread it and realize that it ‘really blows’ and that holdybro is just a ‘whiny little bitch’ who needs to ‘man up’
miss u school supply arms race
miss u spelling tests
(still h8 u timed math tests)
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//////////Reply by leftovermarina
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 1:45 am
@wafflehaus, think we should ‘be togther’ <3
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http://tastelikekathy.wordpress.com/
i like my blog more :p
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 9:32 pm
@yo, irrelevant, GTFO now n don’t come back
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Tom Wolfe as consummate alt author: drink the kool aid y’all.
Miss you author of the only book I read in public school that wasn’t on the itinerary for the explicit purpose of giving white kids a dose of multiculturalism.
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//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
@Blackface Killah, HRO=’radical chic’
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//////////Reply by BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
@Blackface Killah,
that’s the only book you’ve read by tom wolfe isn’t it?
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//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 6:35 am
@BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID,
shit, he wrote books? thought he just tripped hard and wore seer sukker
i pump house gang banged your sister
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//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 9:10 am
@Blackface Killah, in bauhaus or yr haus?
//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 6:36 am
@Blackface Killah, “Miss you author of the only book I read in public school that wasn’t on the itinerary for the explicit purpose of giving white kids a dose of multiculturalism.” [for Salinger, obvi]
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‘It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.-
-J. D. Salinger
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some mnstrmrs in my lecture 2day:
“omg did u hear tht guy that wrote catcher in the rye died??”
“ya, what was his name?”
“jd sallzer? jd salling? jd sallzes?…”
“jd salinger, i didn’t rlly get tht book (lol)”
“yeah the guy was dick, what was tht thing he always said??”
“dunno…”
true story y’all
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
@torbro y moi, I bet a mainstream alt would love this mainstream hate story.
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//////////Reply by OhNoOhMy
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
@torbro y moi, lols
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“i grow old, i grow old, i shall wear my trousers rolled”
eliot
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//////////Reply by litbro~
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
@HJ, in the room the woman come and go/talking abt michelangelo
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//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
@litbro~, Oh do not ask, ‘What it is?’
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
@Blackface Killah,
let us go and make our visit
//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
@Blackface Killah, and I have known the eyes already, known them yall—
people who hate catcher in the rye are as fuckin retarded as people who love it
holden is a failure who complains about everything, fails to get boned and then goes crazy, hes not supposed to be a hero/someone you can project yourself onto
catcher is about the conceits of youth and how shitheaded all teens are
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
@f, damn bro, wouldn’t have understood it if it weren’t for that lil synopsy.
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//////////Reply by smokymtn dbldip
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
@f, hell yea bro
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sweet…
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i thought catchy in the rye was a remake of Perks Of Being a Wallyflower
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It is very obvious from your post you have never read the book, didn’t even bother to learn a THING about JD Salinger, and probably don’t even like reading so why are you writing? You are exactly the type of “phony ” Holden Caufield and Salinger hated so much. He didn’t care about brand name, he cared about his writing- so much so that he stopped publishing it so that stupid people like you wouldn’t read it and comment about it on their shitty blog.
You wouldn’t know authenticity if it bit you in your vamp loving tweeny bopper neck.
And for all these posters that think Salinger is ‘overrated’ and ‘teen drama’ try reading more of his work or taking a class on him because obviously you understood about 5% of what he was writing.
Are we turning into a nation of disrespectful morons? This entire blog post + commentary makes me think YES.
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//////////Reply by marcus
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
@RT, lol
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
@RT,
i think this is the winter of your discontent
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//////////Reply by smokymtn dbldip
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
@HJ, lol
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//////////Reply by tragedy in toyland
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 7:11 pm
@HJ, 2k10 will be the winter of our discotheque
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 10:18 pm
@tragedy in toyland, u win
//////////Reply by Grody
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 7:12 pm
@HJ, quoted out of context durrrr
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 10:15 pm
@Grody, no its not rt is a curmudgeon like richy 3
//////////Reply by wafflehaus
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
@RT,
i really appreciate how much more you ‘get’ jdsalsburybro than every1 else
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//////////Reply by peyote
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 8:55 am
@RT,
I feel like I am lost in an eternal golden braid of irony, and everything just reflects my ironic face back at me
what is sincerity?
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//////////Reply by worldwarjew
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
@peyote, hofstadterbro aint no whiny preppyschool tween like salingbro
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//////////Reply by OhNoOhMy
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
@RT, B O P P E R
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frannie + zooie is authentic, i think
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don’t care about j.d. considering he died at a v. old age and his death is not a tragedy. but i do care about the ‘school supplies arms race’ era and wish that my collection of gel pens still gave me satisfaction that way it did in ’00
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Igby Goes Down was way more Catcher in the Rye than Garden State.
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JD Salinger is like Weezer. You think they’re awesome and so indie when you’re in high school. Then you go to college and feel embarrassed you ever liked them. And then you graduate and realize, ‘nah they were alright.’
But by that time, they have gone crazy and no one cares.
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//////////Reply by dan-onymous
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
@zxcvb, ha, nice…that one deserves some sort of chest bump or bro-hug or somesuch
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//////////Reply by BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
@zxcvb, don’t think JDS got into any bus accidents.
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RIP Sally.
RIP Catchy Rye Rye.
Now ur as great as Kerouac + Burroughs.
Just not as _____.
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//////////Reply by BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
@Acid Midget, Just not as not overrated.
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//////////Reply by Acid Midget
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 5:13 pm
@BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID, mmmm love buzzcore literature.
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if you don’t see the artistic merit behind salingy, or any author, you aren’t trying hard enough
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//////////Reply by anjelica pickles
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
@vladdy nabykovy,
luv ur book abt the lolita
but palefire was a lil 2 crazie
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
@anjelica pickles, ‘Pale Fire’ was fucking incredible, are you kidding me?!
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//////////Reply by anjelica pickles
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 12:29 am
@Bipster,
am i ‘kiddin u’
where do u think u r
//////////Reply by mskmbll
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 9:48 am
@Bipster, Pale fire was incredible. the chess one was so boring tho
//////////Reply by Grody
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 7:13 pm
@Bipster, ada, or ardor!!!!!! i <3 incest
//////////Reply by worldwarjew
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
@vladdy nabykovy, ‘poetic allusion’ is lost on tweens who have to live in a post-electro war apocalypse zone
fell like cormy mccarthy bro wrote his book about the <3/h8 he felt toward justice
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R.I.P. J.D. Salinger
R.I.P. Howard Zinn, who wrote the altest history book ever (A People’s History of the United States).
Franny & Zooey > Catcher in the Rye
Tao Lin > Ayn Rand > John Grisham
Any author > John Grisham
Authors of Classic/Modern Alt Literature/Relevant Books
- Jack Kerouac: no explanation necessary
- Lydia Davis: revolutionized ~2-3 page short stories
- Tao Lin: a 21st century genius who writes about relevant subjects, such as veganism and American Apparel
- George Saunders: everyone should read “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil”
- Wells Tower: “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned”, his first collection of short stories (and debut book), is phenomenal; featured in Vice’s 2k8 Fiction Issue
- 33 1/3 Series: for those who want to read about relevant music
- Ayn Rand: feel it is now alt to be Libertarian
- Hunter S. Thompson: the king of Gonzo
- Thomas Pynchon: the only author with enough alt credibility to have a book (The Crying of Lot 49) allude to in a Yo La Tengo song (“The Crying of Lot G)
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//////////Reply by wafflehaus
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
@funky_rutabaga,
this is better than anything i ever learned in high school english class. u should totally be a teacher and hand out relevant summary sheets
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//////////Reply by funky_rutabaga
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
@wafflehaus, Think I may want to be a teacher if my desired career choices (writer, indie musician) fail.
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
@wafflehaus, ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ is a beautiful book.
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//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted January 29th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
@funky_rutabaga, tha paranoid style in amappy is pretty alt
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//////////Reply by worldwarjew
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
@funky_rutabaga, feel like tweens ‘wont get’ pynchie bro, and he is never in public wearing am appy, so his brand will always be suspect
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//////////Reply by BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
@funky_rutabaga, miss you howie zinn, you forever changed my history experience via 10th grade. RIP.
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//////////Reply by BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
@BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID, p.s. what about Milan Kundera?
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//////////Reply by chilisfan
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 5:36 pm
@BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID, get Milan Kundera and Mila Kunis confused sometimes LOL
family guy
Seems like dying is a lucrative biz.. Post Michael Jackson Death Era.
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R.I.P. J.D.
Better than all the FGGTnovelists of ‘today.’
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“On October last, I was making my way to the town of I–; I had made plans with a good and clever friend to accompany me to a banquet where I knew that countless female specimens would be gathered in the most elegant fashions of the day, and one would turn their gaze on a veritable forest of hands, of love-smitten mitts. From the snatches of gossip I had collected in the preceding weeks, it was to my understanding that C– University women give a tugjob that can only be described as ‘exquisite.’ Naturally, being a lad of keen understanding, I knew that I absolutely had to take advantage of the situation presented before me…”
-THE FUTURE OF ‘LITERATURE.’
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salinger is one of the ult alts.
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hey carles you fucken fagget, i loved that school supplies arms race concept, really harkens me back to my youth amidst the early-90s slimey badas pre-X-games aesthetic…lol
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//////////Reply by wafflehaus
//////////Posted January 30th, 2010 at 12:27 am
@smokymtn dbldip,
‘early-90s slimey badas pre-X-games aesthetic’ [via pogs]
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Zelda Rubinstein died the same day :(
or as i always will remember her as: Madame Serena :-)
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Pynchon 4evas
an army of lovers can be beaten
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grav’s rainbow is the best fiction book of all time, fuck yall
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I wish Amazon had an option to pick the pre-Movie cover of Fight Club.
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it’s funny, i read it, but barely remember the plot.
i remember liking how i got to be in on all his inner-most thoughts, and that he was honest … that was interesting …
but other than that, it didn’t smote my soul (not like gandalf did).
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I prefer existentialism
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Entry-levelers’/bros blacklash or what?
Life of Pi for a private college duh
Entry-levelers religion course they’d never take otherwise
Write like this more often. !
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best alt writer==irvine welsh, suckas
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Snoop:
Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks…
chorus: Snoop (2X)
Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks
Lick on deez nutz and suck the dick
Get’s the fuck out after you’re done
And I hops in my ride to make a quick run…
Dr. Dre
I used to know a bitch named Eric Wright
We used to roll around and fuck the hoes at night
Tight than a mutharfucka with the gangsta beats
And we was ballin’ on the muthafuckin’ Compton streets
Peep, the shit got deep and it was on
Number 1 song after number 1 song
Long as my muthafuckin’ pockets was fat
I didn’t give a fuck where the bitch was at
But she was hangin’ with a white bitch doin’ the shit she do
Suckin’ on his dick just to get a buck or 2
And the few ends she got didn’t mean nothin’
Now she’s suing cuz the shit she be doin’ ain’t shit
Bitch can’t hang with the streets, she found herself short
So now she’s takin’ me to court
It’s real conversation for your ass
So recognize and pass to Daz
Daz:
Now as i’m rollin’ with my nigga Dre and Eastwood
Fuckin’ hoes, clockin’ dough up to no good
We flip flop and serve hoes like flap jacks
(Snoop: But we don’t love them hoes) Bitch, and it’s like that
This is what you look for in a ho who got cash flow
Ya run up in them hoes and grab the cash
And get your dash on
While you’re chillin’, with your homies and shit
And how my niggaz kick the anthem like this
(Snoop: BEEEYYAAACHHH!)
(chorus)
Kurupt:
…To the store, to get me a 4-0
Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes
So I head down the street to long beach
Just so i could meet, a freak
To lick me from my head to my feet
And I’m here, now I’m ready to be done up
Nothin’ but homies around so I puts my gun up
Bitches on my nuts like clothes
But i’m from the pound and we don’t love them hoes
How could you trust a hoe? (Snoop: Why?(echoed 3X)
Cuz a hoe’s a trick
We don’t love them tricks (Snoop: Why?(echoed 3X)
Cuz a trick’s a bitch
And my dick’s constantly in her mouth
And turnin’ them trick ass hoes the fuck out
Now…
Snoop:
I once had a bitch named Mandy May
Used to be up in them guts like everyday
The pussy was the bomb, had a nigga on sprung
I was in love like a muthafucka lickin’ the protung
The homies used to tell me that she wasn’t no good
But I’m the maniac in black, Mr. Snoop Eastwood
So I figure niggaz wouldn’t trip with mine
Guess what? Got gaffled by one time
I’m back to the muthafuckin’ county jail
6 months on my chest, now it’s time to bail
I get’s released on a hot sunny day
My nigga D.O.C. and my homey Dr Dre
Scooped in a coupe, Snoop we got news
Your girl was trickin’ while you was draped in your county blues
I ain’t been out a second
And already gotta do some muthafuckin chin checkin
Move up the block as we groove down the block
See my girl’s house, Dre, pass the glock
Kick in the do’, I look on the flo’
It’s my little cousin Daz and he’s fuckin’ my hoe, yo
(Bitches ain’t shit)
I uncocked my shit…I’m heart-broke but I’m still loc’ed
Man, fuck a bitch!
(Chorus)
Jewell:
(Dr. Dre in background “Bitches ain’t shit”)
I don’t give a fuck about a bitch
But i and her know that they can’t fade this
Cause i’m doin my own thingdown with the swang
I’m hangin’ with Death Row like it ain’t no thing
I say you know can’t deal
Cuz I’m a btich that’s real
Motherfucker need to step back, hell yeah
They need to chill
Because I don’t give a fuck
And I don’t give a fuck (x3)
And now I gotta do some…
And now I gotta do some shit that’s clean
But when I’m on a dick, hell yeah, I get real mean
Like a washing machine
I can wash the clothes
All the hoes knows
That i’m on the flo’ ho
But they can’t hang with my type on swang
I ain’t tryin’ to say I suck every ding-a-lang
But just the juicy ones
Witht he tip of the tongue
And then their sprung
With the nuts hung
(Dr. Dre: Bitches ain’t shit)
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//////////Reply by grizzlycunt
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 3:34 pm
@aw, fukk, yeah i know that shit by heart
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 9:15 pm
@grizzlycunt, lets fuck
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//////////Reply by grizzlycunt
//////////Posted February 1st, 2010 at 2:24 am
@aw, fukk, gimme your address
chekhov invented indie
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Would like to take this opportunity to apologize to azns for making a statement about azns being clones and intimating that azns have a limited range of human- like emotions and capacity for original thought. Srry azn. Talked to two azn today..made me realize that azn try really hard to be like us and that we should grant them the effort. Would not buy an azn and would rather let them roam free and possibly become psych majors.
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//////////Reply by NDN(Indian)ALT
//////////Posted February 1st, 2010 at 12:26 pm
@daffy,
Ever thought that HRO might be written by an AZN?
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted February 1st, 2010 at 12:48 pm
@NDN(Indian)ALT, never
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http://bangpotential.com/2009/09/franny-and-zooey-510.html
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Yo my name Mike aka “The Coolest Guido Douche Baag on tv right now”, Catch in the Rye? forget about it. Read my book: “The Situation Room”
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hipsterunoff is for people who like homeopathy, discuss.
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 9:39 pm
@rooshio, we wish, think a lot of ppl r in2 junk food and ‘alcohol cleanses’ here, concerned for our kind
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//////////Reply by rooshio
//////////Posted February 1st, 2010 at 4:50 pm
@b4hc, thanks for wrapping that up
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i’ll admit it
i havent read this book and most likely never will
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I gotz dat birgin face
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feel like i knew a conceptual girl with free spirited parents who was named ‘zooey’ after the book and i hated her like i hate all spoiled fucks who have alternative parents that grow vegetables and send their kids to waldorf school and belong to the wine of the month club because i am jealous of people like that because my parents are republicans who didn’t go to college and growing up i knew more about nascar than you know about jd salinger.
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted February 1st, 2010 at 4:33 pm
@chilisfan, me too, we’re both freethinking altbros that overcame a lot. conflict and strife builds character, dont hide from ur past.
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i got this book confused w/ ‘the outsiderz’
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 10:16 pm
@pookie, stay true ponyboy
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shitty article. your attempt to act like you are unfamiliar with catch in the rye is sad. obv not real stream of consciousness. trying too hard. give it up.
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted January 31st, 2010 at 9:33 pm
@boozabooza, gj
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catchy in the rye-rye.. LOL’d pretty hard at that
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feel that this was a missed opportunity
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Loved this book as a teen
HATED it in College
Now I’m indifferent. Respect J.D. Salingbro as an artist/super-hermit tho R.I.P.
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honestly dont see what’s so bad about CITR or Salinger, what’s with da h8. if ur gonna define urself by ur bound pieces of paper on a wooden plank, it’s a pretty good one. better than aYN RaN or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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frosty fagtown new york
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//////////Posted February 19th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
@sh,
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This blog is laaaame.
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You are all going to be the death of the American language. You don’t understand Salinger because you crave instant gratification. You’re the type of people he would hate and write about so I’m sure he’s glad you think his book is pointless and dumb. This is my first time seeing this blog and assuredly it will be the last. You people make me sick.
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Your Salinger comments came up on page 35, show’s who’s relevant…Salinger brought you Zappa, H. Thompson, all of San Fransicso, Lenny Bruce, on and on….salinger is why you can wear that hat and not get the shit kicked out of you
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