Re: First Catcher memories?
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:51:06 -0800
Susan Pearson wrote:
> I thought it was interesting what someone said about parts of JDS books
> that they read over and over again. I do that all the time and I was
> curious as to what parts other people read when they are feeling
> depressed or happy or they just want to lie in bed a little longer on a
> rainy Saturday with a good book. The part that I always turn to is
> Seymour's diary in "Raise High..." Reading that bit is like a chat with
> an old friend.
For me it's the letter that Zooey reads in the bath that Buddy wrote years
ago. I remember when I first read that, don't ask me how old I was,
probably the last year or two of high school, and it was as if I was
reading a letter from someone I'd always known was out there but hadn't
crossed my path yet. To this day those few pages alone have the power to
get me refocused, centered, inspired, energetic and remind me of just how
sane I am when all around me all I find are the confused and the crazy who
seem to enjoy being confused and crazy. Sometimes I don't even need to read
the whole story, just that letter...sometimes it gets me through the night,
sometimes it gets me through the winter.
Malcs