Subject: ducks in the wry
kkfchoi@netcom.ca
Date: Fri Apr 04 1997 - 23:24:53 GMT
Just happened to stumble upon this. I loved it. :)
Taken from _Find It? 25 Library Scavenger Hunts to Sharpen Your Research
Skills_ by Randall McCutcheon, copyright 1991
Chapter 8: Ducks in the Wry
[Here there is a quote from Holden about the ducks in Central Park, he's
wondering where they go when the pond freezes over]
[now there's a nice picture of Holden, drawn by Russell Hoban, Time
magazine, September 15, 1961, p.84, with these words under it: "Salinger's
Holden Caulfield Among the young, the mad, the saintly"]
"'In the first place, it was a dumb question. "Who are the ten most admired
men in America today and why." That's almost as dumb as when they ask you
what you want to be when you grow up. And so I wrote your name ten times.
Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield.
Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield.
Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield. "Because he's not a phony" and I got
an "F". And then my parents had to talk to Mr.Bartlett, our principal, and
they all decided they didn't know what to do with me and then I had to go
see Mr.Bartlett with them and they told me there was no way anyone anywhere
could answer Holden Caulfield as even one of the most ten admired men in
America today on his civics test and get away with it and how Miss Pearce
had practically had a hemorrhage when she read my paper because she had such
high hopes for me this semester and I would have to apologize to her and who
the hell was Holden Caulfield anyway?"
'Where has Tommy Flowers Gone?' All rights reserved. Copyright, 1972, by
Terrence McNally."
"'Copies of Catcher in the Rye that have been checked out in public
libraries in Chicago and never returned: 7,500'
Lewis H. Lapham, Michael Pollan, and Eric Etheridge, The Harpers Index Book
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987), p.23)"
Julie :)
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