do sneak cigarettes late at night

they pulled my hair at charm school.

they stole my guestbook during rolecall.

you never look back + November 21.2005 = 1:13 p.m.

meet jess at boerum hill food company for lamb stew & biscuits & glasses of water flavored with lemon. we're both sick & miserable, clutching napkins to our noses. f train to 2nd ave. wait it out in the narrow hallway between bar & wall. american analog set crowd is older than we thought. all the girls still in tight jeans and boots. still with the raggedy haircuts which won't really take on my own head. it's all worth it. the inability to breathe properly. the crowd (which never bothers me when drunk) that pushes and pushes at one. sober, i want to edge my elbows into that girl's big handbag and that boys gigantic leather jacket and thusly push them away. worth it when it all takes place in perfect pitch. esp. bornonthecusp>


"Salinger reveals a recurring preoccupation with persons physically gone - either missing, lost or dead - who haunt surviving friends and kindred. Seymour Glass, who commits suicide at the end of �A Perfect Day for Bananafish� (Nine Stories), dominates subsequent stories progress.
Within the fiction of the 1940s, however, Holden was too great a find to stay missing for long. This flippant, funny, self-absorbed oddball lived in Salinger�s imagination for at least ten years before the publication of The Catcher in the Rye. In �Slight Rebellion off Madison,� a story purchased by the New Yorker in 1941 but not published until December 1946, a third-person narrator presents Holden�s date with Sally Hayes and its dramatic aftermath. Holden�s narrative voice first appears in �Both Parties Concerned� (Saturday Evening Post) through a confused, young father named Billy. In �I�m Crazy� (Collier�s) Holden describes his departure from �Pentey Prep� in first-person vernacular."

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