Salinger trailer: catcher of the wry?

Tue, Sep 10, 2013

Military intelligence, bunkers, inspiration for assassins, perving on 14-year-old girls. Just your ordinary genius.

My theory: Catcher in the Rye was written by aliens — probably the same ones who built the pyramids and make crop circles — and Salinger was merely their front man. If he even exists.

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LaSargenta

Tue, Sep 10, 2013 8:06pm

I hated that book. Original self-indulgent young white privileged male who thinks he’s god and Hurts So Bad Because Of It.

RogerBW

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Wed, Sep 11, 2013 11:05am

Amen. But he was the first to go on at such great length and make unlearnedness look erudite — the same trope that would later give rise to the Magical Negro — and so he is an Unassailable Classic.