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2 years ago

(I am quite aware that blogging about a trip nearly a year past is pretty darn lame. Oh well.)

2 years ago

Graduating on Friday and then leaving Saturday for Seattle to visit Mark and family. Perfect beginning to what is bound to be an amazing summer. To commemorate this summer’s travels, a blog post covering last summer’s trip to Japan will follow. If I get around to it…

2 years ago

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This is disturbing and makes me a little squeamish, but the intrigue keeps me looking.

2 years ago

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Beautiful picture of Mount Roraima - Reminds me of the mountain in Up.

Update: And apparently served as inspiration for Up, according to Wikipedia.

2 years ago

The Onion likes J.D. Salinger too →

2 years ago

J.D. Salinger has passed away →

I’ve always enjoyed J.D. Salinger’s work. While Catcher in the Rye is a great piece of literature, I enjoyed both Nine Stories and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymor: An Introduction much more.

“But guilt is guilt. It doesn’t go away. It can’t be nullified. It can’t even be fully understood, I’m certain - it’s roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn’t perfect doesn’t mean that it can’t be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.”
— J.D. Salinger (Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction)

It will be interesting to see if any of his work comes forward after his death and whether or not those that have rights to his writings will be as adamant as Salinger was about not allowing his most famous work to be adapted for film.

Below, a letter of refusal to a producer seeking to bring Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye to the big screen:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/holden-caulfield-is-unactable.html

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