I don’t want to write a tribute to J.D. Salinger. I don’t care about his literary merits or his reclusive lifestyle. I’m not good at literary analysis anyway. I just know that I’m a lot like Holden Caulfield. Even though I’ve grown out of teenage angst, in adulthood I still feel isolated, alienated and like [...]
Posts Tagged ‘alone’
I know it's crazy.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alone, Holden Caulfield, J.D. Salinger, literature, The Catcher in the Rye, writing on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Starry, Starry Night
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alone, Bill Watterson, creativity, loneliness, orion, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, solitude, stars on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“When it is darkest, men see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde I don’t think it’s coincidental that some of my favorite writers and thinkers have such poignant things to say about the stars. The thing I [...]
