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I don't see why Love had to devote his obituary to an undergraduate essay on the cultural impact of Catcher in the Rye. It's Salinger's magnum opus, but he did do other work- his other books rate one line mentions, while we get a dozen paragraphs on his first.
Incidentally, I don't generally like these death threads so much, because it's not really *sad* for me to see that a man died in his 90s. Still I am saddened that this particular man was unwilling or unable to sustain his writing career in the public eye for all these years. Hopefully some good will come of his death in the form of whatever unpublished manuscripts or possible finished works that may be salvaged from his estate. Let us hope he didn't destroy too much of his work.
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For someone who spent so much time protecting his work from outsiders, one would think he'd be hesitant to destroy his work. Besides, I read just today that recent visitors to his house saw stacks of handwritten notebooks. No idea what's in them.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Incidentally, I don't generally like these death threads so much, because it's not really *sad* for me to see that a man died in his 90s. Still I am saddened that this particular man was unwilling or unable to sustain his writing career in the public eye for all these years. Hopefully some good will come of his death in the form of whatever unpublished manuscripts or possible finished works that may be salvaged from his estate. Let us hope he didn't destroy too much of his work.
Well, I guess you can promote goofy obituaries like this one:
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'I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "F*** you." I'm positive.'
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Hopefully some good will come of his death in the form of whatever unpublished manuscripts or possible finished works that may be salvaged from his estate. Let us hope he didn't destroy too much of his work.
Salinger, to my knowledge, was indeed unwilling to sustain his writing career. Therefore, unless he didn't care what came of his work after his death, I hope he destroyed it, or at least hid it well.
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