iy47ab (03/15/83)
Was just re-reading J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" for the 8th time and came across a couple of interesting quotes I thought I'd put forth. They seemed to fit the column, anyway. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." -- Wilhelm Stekel "'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around -- nobody big, I mean -- except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff -- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and *catch* them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye. I know it; I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.'" -- Holden Caufield in "Catcher in the Rye", by J.D. Salinger. arwen ~v <oh well>