tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post7272666502709690820..comments2024-03-04T11:22:53.502-05:00Comments on Fifty Books Project 2023: J. D. Salinger DiesFifty Books Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08640286429668778869noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-13826902095355260382010-01-30T11:32:24.467-05:002010-01-30T11:32:24.467-05:00A lot of the post-mortems I've read are bad, b...A lot of the post-mortems I've read are bad, but Slate has a good one by, of all people, Troy Patterson, its television critic:<br /><br />http://www.slate.com/id/2242991/Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12500451355263180972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-23995802282227795352010-01-29T17:15:33.028-05:002010-01-29T17:15:33.028-05:00I found this too:
"Salinger's Catcher in...I found this too:<br /><br />"Salinger's Catcher in the Rye... expresses so completely what I have tried to say: a youth, father to what will, must someday be a man, more intelligent than some and more sensitive than most, who (he would not even have called it by instinct because he did not know he possessed it) because God perhaps had put it there, loved man and wished to be a part of mankind, humanity, who tried to join the human race and failed. To me, his tragedy was not that he was, as he perhaps thought, not tough enough or brave enough or deserving enough to be accepted into humanity. His tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race, there was no human race there." <br /><br />- William FaulknerBrent Waggonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05121696882391723790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-81406647287981978892010-01-29T06:43:07.611-05:002010-01-29T06:43:07.611-05:00Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do yo...Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do you start missing everybody.Brent Waggonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05121696882391723790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-42475202727276105202010-01-28T21:51:45.619-05:002010-01-28T21:51:45.619-05:00Truly sad. I was going to find a good excerpt by ...Truly sad. I was going to find a good excerpt by which to honor him but all my Salinger is at school.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12500451355263180972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-11340694056175815152010-01-28T16:33:24.342-05:002010-01-28T16:33:24.342-05:00Great writer and even better hider.Great writer and even better hider.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532247801070532419noreply@blogger.com