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Psychological self-cures of the mind and soul. Where, if anywhere, does this occur in McCarthy? Black, Sheriff Bell, Lester Ballard, Billy? Strauch, “Kings in the Back Row” (1961)…important early...
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Culla Holme — fully immersed in a deep misunderstanding of world. He is wrong, often perniciously so. Huck Finn/Holden-Catcher…a common point of comparison in early Catcher criticism. Quest — journey...
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Holden dreams of becoming a savior (Harold Bloom) Holden Caulfield runs out of country, no place to go, wanderer…ends up in California in a mental institution…kid in BM in jail in...
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“Some Crazy Cliff” Heiserman and Miller Jr. “It is clear that JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye belongs to an ancient and honorable tradition, perhaps the most profound in western fiction…it is, of...
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Intuition…patina…sickness…cure Black CATCHES White in TSL. Black as catcher/savior. Catching in McCarthy — Black catches White, baby catchers/midwives, salvation/save, Billy catches wolf, Holden...
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Tinker — midwife, baby catcher Catcher in the Rye — “If a body meet a body, coming through the rye” — real phrasing from Burns’ poem In book, Holden hears little boy singing “if a body catch a body...
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I am going to post some of the notes (and reflections) I’ve written down in the past week while thinking of parallels between Salinger’s <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> and its protagonist...
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The connection between Salinger’s Holden and McCarthy’s Holden is, of course, coincidental, as McCarthy’s Holden is based on General Samuel Chamberlain’s Judge Holden in My Confession, his...
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Now, this might sound like a phony bunch of crap, but I had this crazy idea that there might be some stupid goddamn connection between Holden Caulfield’s vision of wanting to be some lousy catcher in...
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More Strauch and his contention that Holden cures himself… Holden gets lost in a park (Central Park) he knows well while looking for ducks — “it kept getting darker and darker and spookier and...
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