June 09, 2009
Fixing a Hole
In the course of growing up there are things that must happen, experiences that must be had. Apparently no life can be completely of fully lived without them.
I recently became aware of a rather large hole in my life experience and decided it was time to fix it.
In various news accounts and blog commentaries I have been reading about the lawsuit filed by author J.D. Salinger against an author with nom de plume of J.D. California. Mr. California apparently wrote a book called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. Amazon describes the book:
Unlike apparently everyone else, I have never read Catcher in the Rye.
There was a time in the years just after college when I set out to plug the gaps in my literary experience. I read Dickens, Hugo, Huxley, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Hardy, Joyce, Shelly, Hesse, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway and many others. All important books by important authors that somehow had not been a part of my education. And somehow Salinger never made it onto any reading list I was ever handed by any teacher.
I acquired a PDF and loaded it onto my PDA. I've been a bit busy so I have only manages a few pages in stolen moments. When I have more of an impression I'll let you know if it was a hole worth filling.
I recently became aware of a rather large hole in my life experience and decided it was time to fix it.
In various news accounts and blog commentaries I have been reading about the lawsuit filed by author J.D. Salinger against an author with nom de plume of J.D. California. Mr. California apparently wrote a book called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. Amazon describes the book:
Did I ever tell you about the catcher in the rye? I'm in a field. It s a gray day and only the very tips of the grasses move from side to side with the wind. It s like the ground is breathing. Nothing else is here but me and the field and I'm standing right in the beginning of it. Only when I begin to run do I know that s what I m supposed to do. The rye is shoulder high and it parts to let me through. Loose pods fall off their stems and stick to my pants and arms, but I don t stop running. There s only the sky and the rye. Up there the sky, and to either side the golden brown rye. On a seemingly normal day Mr. C wakes up in a nursing home with an unnerving compulsion to flee his present situation. He boards a bus and embarks on a curious journey through the streets of New York. Sixty years after his debut as the great American antihero, Mr.C is yanked back onto the page without a goddamn clue why. 60 Years Later is an astonishing debut and a marvelous sequel to one of our most beloved classics.
Mr. Salinger is not amused. I don't know if he ever planned to write a sequel and if he did what his vision for an elder Holden Caulfield would be.Unlike apparently everyone else, I have never read Catcher in the Rye.
There was a time in the years just after college when I set out to plug the gaps in my literary experience. I read Dickens, Hugo, Huxley, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Hardy, Joyce, Shelly, Hesse, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway and many others. All important books by important authors that somehow had not been a part of my education. And somehow Salinger never made it onto any reading list I was ever handed by any teacher.
I acquired a PDF and loaded it onto my PDA. I've been a bit busy so I have only manages a few pages in stolen moments. When I have more of an impression I'll let you know if it was a hole worth filling.
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