I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
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What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.
Good-bye, Mr. Salinger [:sad:]
Good-bye, Mr. Salinger [:sad:]
Oh, wow. 
Selfishly, I wonder whether he wrote anything else that might be published posthumously.
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FTA It will be interesting to see if those get published in the future
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In 1999, New Hampshire neighbor Jerry Burt said the author had told him years earlier that he had written at least 15 unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home.
"I love to write and I assure you I write regularly," Salinger said in a brief interview with the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate in 1980. "But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it."
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"I love to write and I assure you I write regularly," Salinger said in a brief interview with the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate in 1980. "But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it."
Read more: HTTP://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/28/national/a100210S50.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0dw3CNRLn
Sad to hear that he's dead... really enjoyed his works... RIP
Well, I mean, he was 91. That's a pretty respectable age.
I liked him for eschewing fame. That's not an easy decision to stand by, I imagine.
I liked him for eschewing fame. That's not an easy decision to stand by, I imagine.
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Samira wrote:
Well, I mean, he was 91. That's a pretty respectable age.
I liked him for eschewing fame. That's not an easy decision to stand by, I imagine.
I liked him for eschewing fame. That's not an easy decision to stand by, I imagine.
We need more eccentric famous people.
91 is a respectful age, but he's one of those that I just assumed would live forever.
I know.
I felt the same way about John Updike, actually.
Who died... a year and a day ago. *cue spooky music*
I felt the same way about John Updike, actually.
Who died... a year and a day ago. *cue spooky music*
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I'll admit it. I didn't like The Catcher in the Rye, and that's all I ever read from him (mandatory high school reading). I thought Holden Caulfield was a whiny ******* with a stick up his ***, and as I personally had felt no alienation as a teen and could not relate at all to the book. The one thing I did like about it was the carousel at the end, which made me understand the Dispatch song "Flying Horses."
I realize he (Salinger) was more than a one-trick pony though, and a lot of my friends who were going through their rebellious teenage years really enjoyed Catcher. So it's too bad :-(
I realize he (Salinger) was more than a one-trick pony though, and a lot of my friends who were going through their rebellious teenage years really enjoyed Catcher. So it's too bad :-(
I didn't realize he was still alive?
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
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"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
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Posted: Jan 28 2010 at 3:50 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Good fUcking riddance.
Huh. Well, maybe you'll accomplish something of lasting value. I doubt it, but maybe.
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Selfishly, I wonder whether he wrote anything else that might be published posthumously.
I wonder if that guy who wrote the unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye will have better luck getting it published now?
Fuck JD Salinger, Howard Zinn died. :(
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Smasharoo wrote:
Howard Zinn died. :(
I shall make the necessary arrangements
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Smasharoo wrote:
Fuck JD Salinger, Howard Zinn died. :(
I know! Today sucks.
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Samira wrote:
Smasharoo wrote:
Fuck JD Salinger, Howard Zinn died. :(
I know! Today sucks.
And so it begins.
Have we done this year's death pool yet?
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Well, if the 2010 list remains confined to octo- and nonagenarians, we're in good shape.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
Huh. Well, maybe you'll accomplish something of lasting value. I doubt it, but maybe.
Will? Probably not. Have? Yup.
You?
Who won the last one?
Just as Planned.
Samira wrote:
Well, if the 2010 list remains confined to octo- and nonagenarians, we're in good shape.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Nobby wrote:
Samira wrote:
Well, if the 2010 list remains confined to octo- and nonagenarians, we're in good shape.
NonapuSSy.
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