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J.D. Salinger in Purgatory (Political Cartoon)
The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 01-29-2010 | Steve Breen

Posted on 01/29/2010 5:05:02 PM PST by DogByte6RER

Purgatory

(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: cartoon; catcherintherye; catherintherye; irony; jdsalinger; purgatory; salinger; thecatcherintherye
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To: Ronin

Pretty much my assessment of it also.

I think the main reason liberals were so orgasmic about it is because it had the F-word in it a couple of times which was apparently a big deal when it was published.


41 posted on 01/29/2010 6:21:13 PM PST by Zman516 (muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
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To: Zman516

It’s popped on lists of all time favorite conservative novels.


42 posted on 01/29/2010 6:22:50 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Well, it ain’t on my list.

I just couldn’t empathize with HC.


43 posted on 01/29/2010 6:28:35 PM PST by Zman516 (muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
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To: Zman516

He’s not a likable character.


44 posted on 01/29/2010 6:29:25 PM PST by Borges
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To: DogByte6RER

..back in college we read CITR in American lit class...along with Melville,Faulkner,Steinbeck,Hemingway and Fitzgerald....I’m GLAD they had us read those great writers...guys like Steven King and John Grisham couldn’t carry their jockstrap...on their best day!


45 posted on 01/29/2010 6:30:06 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Not that I remember. Unless, of course, the brat grew up to be a rock star.


46 posted on 01/29/2010 6:31:13 PM PST by Ronin
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To: Ronin
Well, your comment is ironic. Holden Caulfield was, to a large degree, Salinger. Salinger was at Utah Beach on D-Day and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He spoke German and interrogated Germans for our CIC...but don't misunderstand me: the guy was a major a-hole, crazier than a sh*thouse rat, and had a really bad self-involved attitude.

But, he WAS in the army.

47 posted on 01/29/2010 6:31:59 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Borges

As you wish.


48 posted on 01/29/2010 6:32:09 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: Pharmboy

How do you know he was an a-hole? His son claims he was a good guy and a great grandfather to his kids.


49 posted on 01/29/2010 6:33:42 PM PST by Borges
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
That is why he became a recluse. He wrote something from his heart and a bunch of nutjobs tried to turn a normal private man into an icon of the SF 60’s spoiled left.

The guy was just a quiet writer wanting to be left alone.

50 posted on 01/29/2010 6:44:36 PM PST by liberty or death
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To: Pharmboy

Interesting. I didn’t know that.

The book still stinks.


51 posted on 01/29/2010 6:45:14 PM PST by Ronin
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To: Borges
A misanthrope who went from cult to cult (drank his own urine, Scientology, veganism, etc. etc.) seduced women 40 years younger than he, looked down his nose at everyone not as clever as he...yeah, sounds like a great guy.

Yet, I believe Catcher was the greatest American novel since Huck Finn. He was a dreadful person...brilliant but dreadful. Hey...I love Beethoven's piano sonatas and string quartets, but he was no day at the beach either.

52 posted on 01/29/2010 6:46:39 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: DogByte6RER

Anything made mandatory in school will be disliked. In Germany, all students are required to read Book 1 of Goethe’s Faust. On my own, in the US, I had voluntarily read Book 1, and without missing a beat, read Book 2 as well.

When I mentioned this to some recent graduates of a German gymnasium, or high school, they looked at me with a most unique combination of amazement, derision, confusion, and puzzlement.


53 posted on 01/29/2010 6:59:24 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: DogByte6RER

I must be one of the few Boomers who managed to avoid reaing C.i.t.R.


54 posted on 01/29/2010 7:04:45 PM PST by clintonh8r (Nobody's 'bot!!)
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To: Zman516
"Reader Worryo1 says it better than I do: A radical is dead. I do not regret this person’s passing. “The Catcher in the Rye” and its main character, Holden Caufield, were used as templates for the youth culture of the 60’s. The idea that you could not trust anyone over 30 came directly out of “Catcher’s” depiction of phony and corrupt adults. A now cliched theme about bad adults versus good young people came out of that novel, and was reproduced time and again for decades after 1951. You had a template for the antics of a Jerry Rubin or Tom Hayden, or even the terror of the Weather Underground in the character of Holden Caufield. Also, high schools fed into this by having “The Catcher in the Rye” as required reading in literature classes. It was a very mediocre novel, but its impact was huge. Even the Christian Science Monitor’s reviewer back in1951 predicted that novel’s nasty fallout." From Debbie Schlussel. http://www.debbieschlussel.com/16216/2-bird-w-one-stone-buh-bye-zinn-salinger/#more-16216
55 posted on 01/29/2010 7:11:18 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: liberty or death

I tend to think you’re right. Unless some biography comes out strongly making some bizarre point, I think he just liked the story he wrote, wanted to write others, but didn’t want everything he wrote to be compared to everything else he wrote.


56 posted on 01/29/2010 7:26:51 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Whoever wrote that has no idea what they’re talking about. Salinger was critiquing the behavior of the character. His other fiction has an overt conservative and Christian outlook.


57 posted on 01/29/2010 9:40:14 PM PST by Borges
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To: Ronin

***Not that I remember. Unless, of course, the brat grew up to be a rock star.***

I’m just wondering what in the book caused a certain young punk to shoot John Lennon.


58 posted on 01/29/2010 10:27:52 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Compasion overload can wait! People need help NOW!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

John Hinckley was obssesed with it as well. As was the guy who killed actress Rebecca Schaeffer.


59 posted on 01/29/2010 11:35:11 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

I’m with you. I view it as important.

Did not realize he just died.

I confess I have an extensive library but it’s 95% non fiction and reference..so I am no expert


60 posted on 01/29/2010 11:44:40 PM PST by wardaddy (Good Yankees in Massachusetts, I salute you all from bended knee in appreciation)
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