A Perfect Day for Bananafish

[leitmotiv]

J.D. Salinger died today

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...null&offset=0&page=1 (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7007023.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1)

[Ba5tard5word]

RIP. Now he is safe from the phonies.

[Airmail109]

THIS makes me genuinely sad.

Catcher in the Rye helped me laugh at myself. We've lost a reclusive but great mind.

[leitmotiv]

I was Holden when I was in high school.

[Airmail109]

Originally posted by leitmotiv:
I was Holden when I was in high school.

Hah, same! I think we've talked about this a bit before! Still am a little like him as I think you are.

[leitmotiv]

Still detest Stradlaters and all people who live by pretense, but the passing years have taught me that other Holdens might see me as a Stradlater. You can't be the protagonist in everybody's novel. Life requires villains.