"holden"

i was going through catcher in the rye again. great book. i was mildy entertained when i first read it but now i think sorta love it. here are two passages that made me smile.

"I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in."

Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddam hint. Not him though...

"What the hellya reading?"

"Goddamn book."

He shove my book back with his hand so that he could see the name on it. "Any good?" he said.

"This sentence I'm reading is terrific."

and

... she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we won't quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

j.d. salinger. what an oedipus.

dope song: get up kids' out of reach this pleading song reminds me of how bittersweet i felt in between freshman and sophomore year. this song and i'll catch you. that was the time when music took over my life. i was such an emo-head. how insanely raw and lost and spiritful i was...