Thursday, January 28, 2010

Where Do the Ducks Go When the Pond Freezes Over?

J.D. Salinger died on Wednesday. He was very old and I imagine quite kooky. There were rumors that he drank his own urine and practiced many other strange Buddhist rituals (Just kidding, I'm very open-minded when it comes to wacky and weird religions). His daughter wrote a book in 2000 and painted a picture of a cranky old man living in a house with the windows and doors all locked up. There have been a few movies made with him in mind (The character played by James Earl Jones,Terrance Mann, was based on him. As was the whole Finding Forrester movie).
Like so many other phonies, I read The Catcher in the Rye in high school and I liked it. I actually probably liked a bit too much. I still like it now and am teaching it in my American Lit class. I just thought I should at least acknowledge that he is no longer alive...and maybe now we'll get some of the stuff he wrote after 1965. Maybe not.

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