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“If I push for Selectiveness with a description, I’ll quit cold again before I start”
now it’s impossible to know if that’s what Salinger was thinking while writing this piece but personally i would count that as a key to making peace with his writing here, and a very valuable piece of advice for myself, as i tend to procrastinate a lot as I write my own stuff…

few passages into Seymour: An Introduction, my non-native head is exploding with all the incessant super-long sentences. Think I’ll go back after finishing Nine Stories

reading this is like waoh there are countries out there writing racism into their constitution

“上帝呀，当我由于某种原因而不喜欢这些规律和二乘二等于四的时候，这些自然规律和算术又与我何干呢？当然，如果我真的无力，我是不会用脑袋去撞开石墙的，但我也不会仅仅因为面临着石墙而自己又没有足够的力气就善罢甘休。”

“When I heard the noise, I was worried that the cat had been hurt…But I came out, and I saw you, and you were crying more than me, because you remembered your cat, and it made you sorry you hurt this one. Why would I want to make you feel bad for anything you do? I think you’re nice, Laura Palmer.”
HEARTBREAKING

BISEXUAL LAURA PALMER YAYYYYYYY

This is intimate enough to hurt. Even if you strip off the sa parts this resembles too much of an actual diary of a girl going through her teenage yrs—wondering if any thoughts you have are sinful or normal. The vengeful personality rebuild to protect yourself against the hurt that the world has caused. The difference is that nothing and no one will help Laura bc she’s fighting something too much bigger than her.

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