RIP

I’ll try to get a gaming related post up later today, but I just wanted to take a minute and acknowledge the passing of J.D. Salinger yesterday.

For whatever reason, likely due to it’s language and content clashing with the mores of the small Southern town in which I grew up, I was never assigned The Catcher in the Rye in high school. I bailed on my English major in college, so I never encountered Catcher in a classroom setting. I didn’t read the novel until after I had graduated, actually. I remember reading it during the month or so I stayed in Greenville, working at Ted’s and housesitting, taking in Holden Caulfield while selling six packs and kegs. I enjoyed the book and recognized why it was great, but my worry about being “phony” had already been shaped by punk rock, Emerson, and Nietzsche before I met Holden. Still, Salinger was a great one. Maybe now we’ll get to read more of his work.