random story...


Subject: random story...
From: Pete(r) (horanp@kenyon.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 14:11:24 GMT


Fishes,
  This week, while home for Thanksgiving, I went into a famous Cincinnati
chili restaurant and sat down. Suddenly, a bouy who could not have been any
older than 14 caught my eye--he was staring off into space, a slight grin on
his face. In his hand was the edition of "Catcher" with the orange and white
cover and the carousel horse. Several things caught me about this: his face,
his approximate age, and when/where he was reading (i.e. while eating lunch
with his family in a crowded restaurant). Then it seemed to me that the
perfect time to read "Catcher" are those places where it is most
inappropriate: at the dinner table, at a ballgame, Church, etc. The reader
gets the full effect of the novel this way. Being unlike any other book ever
written, I'm not sure it should be READ like any other book either.

My two cents,

Pete(r).

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