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Imagine a boy in a bathtub, reading a four-year-old letter with as many wrinkles as this t-shirt.
The boy is Zooey Glass and the letter was written by his brother,
Buddy Glass, who also narrates the story named for his youngest brother.
There are as many Glass siblings as there are days of the week.
The youngest girl is Franny Glass who is soundly asleep
on a living room sofa while the you is reading in the tub.
Elsewhere in Salingeria, the first born of the brood
is referred to as See More Glass
(The subtitle of that hyperlink could have been
"See More Antiquated Academic Gripes.")
The book is opened to the pages from whence come the quotes.
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Cleverness was my permanent affliction, my wooden leg...As one limping man to another...
let’s be courteous and kind to each other.
Seymour once said–in a crosstown bus, of all places–that all legitimate religious study
must lead to unlearning the differences between boys and girls, animals and stones,
day and night, heat and cold.
J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
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NINE SALINGER PAGES continues here.
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If Salingeria were an island in South Seas, the reader suggested in the photograph would be meditating in the grass. Then in the glassy sand, sans his book, sans his shirt, he'd be tanning and he'd be making beautiful photographs like the one above.
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