take that, ian hamilton

i don't recall ever running into this complete a quote
until today on abebooks.com:

"It has always been a most terrible and almost
unassimilable wonder to me that it is evidently quite
lawful, the world over, for a newspaper or a
publishing house to "commission" somebody, in the not
particularly fair name of good journalism or basic
profitable academic research, to break into the
privacy not only of a person not reasonably suspected
of criminal activity but into the lives as well,
however glancingly, of that person's relatives and
friends. Speaking (as you may have gathered) from
rather unspeakably bitter experience, I suppose I
can't put you or Random House off, if the lot of you
are determined to have your way, bu I do feel I must
tell you, for what very little it may be worth, that I
think I've borne all the exploitation and loss of
privacy I can possibly bear in a single lifetime."

--J.D. Salinger,

in a letter to Ian Hamilton

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