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…"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around - nobody big - I mean except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them all. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be…"
- Holden Caulfield to Phoebe Caulfield (p. 173) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
November 27th, 2006 at 4:02 pm