Salinger. Necroloage, evocări ale fugii lui din lume mult înainte să moară, “s-a dus să-i dea interviu lui Dumnezeu” şi multe altele la fel. Am selecţia mea. frumos şi simplu David Lodge în nyt care invocă stilul narativ skaz (de la rusul skazat’ – a spune) şi dă un exemplu din Salinger, oralitate care ucide cu simplitatea ei: “
“The thing is, most of the time when you’re coming pretty close to doing it with a girl … she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don’t. I can’t help it. You never know whether they really want you to stop, or whether they’re just scared as hell, or whether they’re just telling you to stop so that if you do go through with it, the blame’ll be on you, not them. Anyway, I keep stopping. The trouble is, I get to feeling sorry for them. I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains. I don’t know. They tell me to stop, so I stop.”
Lodge concluzionează: “It looks easy, but it isn’t.” Ăsta e Salinger. Cornish, satucul unde traia Salinger, de pe wiki: Cornish is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,661 at the 2000 census. Cornish has three covered bridges. Each August, it is home to the Cornish Fair. Un citat foarte frumos pus de AMI la cometarii, apropo de Cornish şi, de ce nu, de bloguri: “That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.” Chestii importante. Salinger a fost trimis de părinţi să înveţe arta măcelăriei în Europa. A făcut chiar o deplasare în Polonia ca să deprindă metode eficiente de injunghiere a porcilor. Nu
