O amargo de odiar tudo o que lhe é doce

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all,

be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.” 

J. D. Salinger (1919 -2010)

There are some people who think love is sex and marriage and six o'clock-kisses and children, and perhaps it is, Miss Lester. But do you know what I think? I think love is a touch and yet not a touch

Sonny’s the New Yorker mamma’s boy!

• 1 de Janeiro de 1919

• Meio Judeu, Meio Cristão

• Upper East Side

• Camping

Com Doris em 1920

Valley Forge

• De Escolas Públicas para Particulares

• Do YMCA para o Laico

• Nasce Jerry Salinger

• “Prepotente, mas amoroso”

Hide not thy tears on this last day Your sorrow has no shame: To march no more midst lines of gray,

No longer play the game. Four years have passed in joyful ways Wouldst stay these old times dear? Then cherish now these fleeting days The few while you are here.

The last parade, our hearts sink low: Before us we survey- Cadets to be, where we are now And soon will come their day. Though distant now, yet not so far, Their years are but a few. Aye, soon they'll know why misty are Our eyes at last review.

The lights are dimmed, the bugle sounds The notes we'll ne'er forget.And now a group of smiling lads: We part with much regret. Goodbyes are said, we march ahead Success we go to find. Our forms are gone from Valley Forge Our hearts are left behind.”

Wien, Wien e The Skipped Diploma

• A apatia do Hype de Manhatan

• O Rei do Bacon

• 1937 – A Girl I knew

• Ursinus College

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.” 

“J. D. S’s, The Skipped Diploma,” The Ursinus Weekly, Segunda, 24 de

outubro de 1938 • Note:• Vogue magazine is now conducting its fourth annual Prix De Paris contest, open to college seniors. The first prize is one

year’s employment with Vogue including six months in the New York office and six months in the Paris office.To those women seniors interested, this department will advance further details. (Desperately, we regret that Esquire presents no similar opportunity.)

• Movie Dept.:• Weaned on Broadway, John Garfield (now appearing in “Four Daughters”) smokes cigarettes out of the side of his mouth,

puts his feet on pianos, and grips Sweet Young Things by their frail shoulders, much more convincingly, we think, than does even Don Ameche.

• Book Dept.:• Ernest Hemingway has completed his first full-length play. We hope it is worthy of him. Ernest, we feel, has underworked

and overdrooled ever since “The Sun Also Rises,” “The Killers,” and “Farewell To Arms.”• Theater Dept.:• “Amphitryon ‘38”. The Lunts march on. Boy meets girl. Jupiter gets girl. The word the Greeks had for it is not very different

from ours, but the Lunts juggle it around so cleverly that the illusion remains. This play we recommend oh-so-highly.• Radio Dept.:• There is a gentleman on the air who promises to teach anyone with a dollar in his pocket how to play the piano by ear.

Dying to be the life of some blond’s party, we sent for the gentleman’s course. In return for our hard-earned dollar, we received thousands of annoying little digits and integers which, we understand, are substitutes for musical notes. In short, we are still playing “My Country ‘Tis Of Thee” with our same skinny index finger. Beware of a piano-playing baritone named LeRoy . .

• Campus Dept.:• For the sake of convenience, Doc may install a new slot-machine which automatically grabs your weekly check as you pass

by. The ingenious gadgets slugs you at the same time, it is said.•

The Young Folks

• Columbia e the Story

• Elizabeth Murrey

• O grande romance Americano

• The Hang of it

• Comercial x Não

• A Ironia e “A Pequena Oona”

• The heart of a broken story

O silêncio do garoto que não sabe permanecer calado

• Slight Rebellion of Maddison e Holden on the Bus

• O sonho da New Yorker

O Ultimo e o Melhor dos Peter Pans

• 1942 ou “Já me sinto Oficial”

• Shadow and Substance: uma palhaçadinha

• 1944 a Inglaterra

e o dia D

A voz do que não

Podia falar

Inferno Editorial e o Começo do Fim

“Gin a body meet a body  Comin thro' the rye,Gin a body kiss a body,  Need a body cry?” – Robert Burns

Os Caulfields• The Last and Best of the Peter Pans (1942, não publicada)• Last Day of the Last Furlough (1944)• The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls (1945, não publicada)

– Sobre Keneth (Allie) Caulfield, a primeira criança gênio

• This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise (1945)• The Stranger (1945)• Are You Banging Your Head Against the Wall? (1941, • não publicada)• Holden On the Bus (1942, não publicada)• I'm Crazy (1945)• Slight Rebellion Off Madison (1946)• The Boy in the People Shooting Hat (1948, não publicada)

A Glass Family: “I'm sick of not having the courage to

be an absolute nobody.” – Les Glass– +Bessie Gallagher

• Seymour Glass (Fev. 1917 – Março 1948)

• +Muriel Fedder (Casados em junho 1942)

• Webb Gallagher "Buddy" Glass (1919 – )

– W. G. em  Hapworth 16, 1924 e “Tio Webb" em Down at the Dinghy.

Beatrice "Boo Boo" Glass (1920 – )• +Mr. Tannenbaum

– Lionel Tannenbaum• Waker Glass (1921 – )• Walter Glass (1921 – Late Fall 1945)• +Eloise

– Ramona• Zachary Martin "Zooey" Glass (1929 – )• Frances (or Francesca) "Franny"

Glass (1934 – )

Reflete ou Refrata? The Glass

– Janeiro 1948 — A Perfect Day for Bananafish– Março, 1948 — Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut– Março, 1949 — The Laughing Man– Abril, 1949 — Down at the Dinghy– Janeiro, 1955 — Franny– Novembro, 1955 — Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters– Maio, 1957 — Zooey– Junho, 1959 — Seymour: An Introduction– Junho, 1965 — Hapworth 16, 1924

"Did you see more glass?"

“He glanced at the girl lying asleep on one of the twin beds. Then he went over to one of the pieces of luggage, opened it, and from under a pile of shorts and undershirts he took out an Ortgies calibre 7.65 automatic. He released the magazine, looked at it, then reinserted it. He cocked the piece. Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple.”

For Franny Glass

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZmb_wn9Whg

The Catcher in The Rye• 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. 

• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.  You never know where the hell you are.  I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.  Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass.  I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

Gone To the Rye• "Anyway, I keep picturing all these

little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.  Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me.  And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.  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 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."

“People never notice anything.” 

"This is my statement"

"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing,"

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."