"It's like, you know, inside every stove there's a fire. Well, inside every grass blade there's a grass blade, that's just like burning up with being a grass blade. And inside every tree, there's a tree, and inside every person there's a person, and inside this world that seems so boring and ordinary, if you look hard enough, there's a totally amazing magical beautiful world."
That's what Skippy Dies is about.
Definitely worth it.
Incidentally, I'm about to teach Catcher in a few weeks to ninth graders. Are we, as Emily Temple and Jessica Roake at Slate suggest, living in a post-Catcher world?
When we live in a world where each of us knows what it is we're supposed to be doing and how we're supposed to act in order to connect with, well, anyone at all--and none of that feels like it is killing our very soul--then perhaps we'll be living in a post-Catcher world. I look forward to getting to that point and telling my children tales of bad old days.
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