I certainly hope I am not a jinx. In all my times of practicing ceditra, I’ve never had this happen.
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December 31, 2009
Today’s entry, marking the end of the year, comes from page 963 (part of the biographical section) of the Oxford Pocket American Dictionary of Current English (Oxford University Press, 2002):
Sal – in – ger, J(erome) D(avid) 1919 – ; U.S. author
So now I know that the J.D. stands for.
And apparently he’s still alive after celebrating his 90th birthday.
At the moment, and without the benefit of Google and Wikipedia, I can only think of one book that Mr. Salinger has written, The Catcher in the Rye.
In my experience, I started that book that chronicles the life of Holden Caulfield, but I only got about 80 pages into it (maybe less) before I gave up on it.
I started the book not in high school and not in college, but in San Diego either right before or right after marriage. It actually was (and still is) my wife’s dog-eared copy. If I look hard enough amongst the boxes, I bet I could find the copy.
Maybe I should put that book back on my to-read list (once I’m done with the other titles sitting there: The 2012 Story, The Da Vinci Code, George Carlin’s autobiography). Catcher is called a classic so I maybe I should try it again.
I completed War and Peace and Moby-Dick because I thought they were classics and that I should have them in my mental library. Who knows – maybe there will be some cultural reference or touchstone in Salinger’s book (much like Ayn Rand’s John Galt) that I will learn about.
Ah, the thrill of not knowing and of discovery
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Now that Mr. Salinger passed away last week, I guess I really should find that ratty copy of Catcher and discover what I’ve been missing.
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