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** It ''was'' written in 1951.
* "Crummy" looks wrong when it's spelled "crumby". The word doesn't come from "crumb".
** Maybe it was Salinger's pet word. According to our "[[Wanton Cruelty to
* Why does everyone say that Holden is a jerk and that he's "manipulative"? Sure, he uses bad words and lies about his age so that he can get drunk, but he seems like a pretty nice guy beyond that. He always has something sympathetic to say even if he doesn't initially like a person, and to me he's more of a [[Cloud Coo Coo Lander]] (thinking about random things, in his own little world, the "where do the ducks go in the winter when they can't use the pond" thing) than any of that. I heard about the book and expected him to be like Malcolm (a sociopath almost) from Malcolm in the Middle, but he seems to just be a disoriented guy who doesn't know what he's talking about and always wavers between oppinions. Holden really does.
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