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UrliMancati: It has been said that Barney is Holden at the end of his life. While the twos do not have so much in common, the reader will definitively love both characters.
Genlæst. Anden gang. I et pausespout fra Moby-Dick, på en tur til Paris. Mægtig sjovt gensyn. Sikken en ballade. Holden Caulfield er langtidsholdbar og misforstået mærkelig. Sproget selvfølgelig, men desværre, halvkedeligt halvtredserlingo. Vil gerne have fingre i Rifbjergs "Griberen i rugen"-version. Tror det vil løfte den danske læsning i dette årtusinde.
Læst anden gang værelse 1132, Sequioa Lodge, lidt uden for Paris, ret tæt på Disneyland. Ho ho ho. Sø udenfor - med ænder, der absolut ikke gad svare mig på, hvor deres fætre fra Central Parks Lac de Canard bliver af om vinteren. Muligvis fordi de ikke forstod d-andsk. ( )
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To my mother
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want the truth."
Citater
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I'm quite illiterate but I read a lot.
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
I do not even like ... cars... I’d rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move.... Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
"Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
Certain things they should stay as they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What it'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that don't suit you, that aren't becoming to you. You'll begin to understand your measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Læst anden gang værelse 1132, Sequioa Lodge, lidt uden for Paris, ret tæt på Disneyland. Ho ho ho. Sø udenfor - med ænder, der absolut ikke gad svare mig på, hvor deres fætre fra Central Parks Lac de Canard bliver af om vinteren. Muligvis fordi de ikke forstod d-andsk. (