So anyways, that killed me. Anyways, it didn’t really bother me that I didn’t get it when I first read it in high school, it really didn’t. Just a whiny kid complaining about a bunch of phonies. So what?
But I’m working on writing my next novel and I’m thinking of it being a Rites of Passage Young Adult novel. All the adults in the world are just pretending. I’m really smooth I get it. They don’t get it, but I do. I really do.
So to get back in the mindset of a teenager that already knows everything, it was refreshing. You see, either everyone you talk to doesn’t know anything, or they only know what you already know so what’s the point of listening to them? But they should listen to me because I’ve got questions about things I don’t understand. Like the ducks in Central Park. Where do they go when the lake freezes over? What do @k00b or @ek or @sn really do with the fees they collect from zaps? I wish someone would listen and answer my questions. “Look at the footer” they’ll say. “The FAQ has the answers to the questions you probably have.”
But what about me and my questions? What if I know I agreed to only pay $5 to have sex with a prostitute, but her handler is asking for $10 anyways? I didn’t even sleep with her for Christ’s sakes. Not that I didn’t want to, I didn’t, but I just wasn’t in the mood. I couldn’t sleep is all. Anyways, my younger brother Allie is dead now.
What am I rambling on for anyways? You probably already lost interest. Everyone does. No one listens to me, except my little sister Phoebe. Our last day together she went on the carousel. I could stare at her for hours. Around and around. Like reading everything @DesertDave or @siggy47 has to say. Around and around. It was like she could stay a kid forever. God, I wish you could’ve been there. To see what they have to say in Alter_Native ~alter_native stacker news territory or BooksAndArticles ~BooksAndArticles stacker news territory
It’s a subset of a subset. Not just Bitcoiners with low time preference. But with ones who have something to say, and people who will zap if they listened.
I hope you listen to me and reread Catcher in the Rye too. It killed me.
You made me round and round about my congnitive powers. Haha. The book must be great. I hope I can find it for free somewhere. Thanks. A very roundy good article!
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Yup that’s what I did found a free pdf online. Usually books that are classics like these are pretty readily available.
Thanks for reading? Glad u exercised your cognitive powers 💪
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You're right! I'm gonna bookmark this for later cognitive exercise. It is a very good article for that.
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143 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 5h
Thanks Holden.
BTW I don’t have answers for all your questions but the sats from fees go 70% to the territory posted in and 30% to the rewards pool.
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Haha! @grayruby listens. No phony here 🫡
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 5h
My wife would beg to differ on the listening thing. Haha
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Awww. Here, have a pity zap 😭😭
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I will take my zaps any way I can get them.
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Thank you sir fir the post. It's supe super hilarious. The book is alsk funny or serious?
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The book is definitely funny! But only because Holden takes himself so seriously.
You know how it is when you’re a teen things will feel like they’re the end of the world! So I’m not laughing at him, but it’s nice when I can laugh with him 🤣
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 3h
I related to Holden as a 13 year old, and as a 30 something year old, and as a 50 something year old. Even if he is whiny, or maybe because. Great review and advice.
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Thank you! He doesn’t make the best choices, but when you get past the whining you’re sympathetic to his point of you.
Makes you wonder how author JD Salinger felt coming home from fighting in the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and then writing this book!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 2h
I'll never understand that. Did you ever read Joyce Maynard's book At Home In The World? She paints a very ugly picture of Salinger. She basically got pimped out to Salinger by her own mother when she was very young.
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I have not read it. Yes supposedly he was a very private guy and himself made the point that he feels you should measure the weight of a book separate from the character of the author who wrote it. Of course many times that can be hard to do!
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Msd0457890 3h
Many times that happened to me when reading a book when I was a child, thinking that it was something I would never understand, I understand you perfectly.
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Thank you! It’s definitely a clever writing trick to be able to write in another style.
As they say, you need to at least first learn the rules of grammar in order to break them effectively 🤣
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Great read. I also like The Catcher in the Rye better the second time I read it.
I hope the part about Allie isn’t autographical. Hugs to you if it is.
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Luckily no it’s not. That’s a line out of the book. It shows how Holden is raw and still processing his emotions the way he just blurts out things that are clearly giving him grief and affecting him subconsciously. You’re following his stream of consciousness when suddenly he slams you into a brick wall.
It’s your book reviews that inspired me to write this one! 🫡
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Luckily no it’s not. That’s a line out of the book. It shows how Holden is raw and still processing his emotions the way he just blurts out things that are clearly giving him grief and affecting him subconsciously. You’re following his stream of consciousness when suddenly he slams you into a brick wall.
It’s your book reviews that inspired me to write this one! 🫡
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