The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger, 1945. If you never read it, read it. If you have read it, read it again. It is impossible not to some days relate to Holden Caufield in his red hunting hat, surrounded by phonies...
“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.”
“I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. It’s really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. I really do. The one side of my head-the right side-is full of millions of gray hairs. I’ve had them ever since I was a kid. And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve. Everybody says that, especially my father. It’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always think something's all true. I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am-I really do-but people never notice it. People never notice anything.”
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody”
“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ.
They can drive you crazy. They really can.”
"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."
“It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”
Image: flickr ciel photography
This video is an amazing combination of pixel animation and creative 80's kids’ fantasy world. I can't even imagine how many dreams I had that combined my real life and video game challenges. A recent tweet I read mentioned ‘swerving around a banana peel on the highway', I found it hilarious and kind of scary to think about how much video games of our generation like Mario bros. and Frogger affect us today. I remember not being allowed to have duck hunter for our Nintendo. Poor parents today- video games like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty... are violent and breed crime. Especially not to mention Japan's 'Rape Lay' - click the link for details- you can guess what the goal of that game is.
