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- Dear Whit.

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I regret to inform you that
Holden Caulfield is dead.

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I know you thought he could protect me.

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Or at the very least give
me refuge from my sarcasm.

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But Holden is gone forever.

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And I don't know if
anything can save me now.

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- Oh, where's your girl, Jerry?

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Where'd she go?

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- Ah, she wanted to
dance with her brother.

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- That's a tight family.

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- You know, the Lusitania
making it to England

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is more hopeful than getting
laid at this rat trap.

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- Oh, I don't know.

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Spoiled rich girls love college dropouts.

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They're all dying to tell their fathers,

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"He's not only broke,
Daddy, he's also a Jew."

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- Hey, half Jew.

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Why do we keep coming here?

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I can't stand all these flits and phonies.

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- To give girls like that the time.

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- Who is that?

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- Oona O'Neill.

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- What, as in Eugene O'Neill?

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- That's her dad.

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Rumor is she's got a thing for writers.

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- Maybe I can get her drunk
and read her one of my stories.

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- The drunk part, yes.

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Not so sure about the second.

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I've read your work.

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- You're a real prince of a guy.

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Who are the bodyguards?

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- Blythe Chaucer and Carol Flourentine.

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Her protectors from morphine addicts

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and boys without trust funds.

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You even try to give Oona the time,

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they'll take your watch away.

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- Okay.

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I'm going in.

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Ladies, Oona.

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- Hello.

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- It's a pleasure to meet you.

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I'm Jerome David Salinger.

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My friends call me Jerry.

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- It's a pleasure to meet
you, Jerome David Salinger.

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- I'm a huge admirer of your father.

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I'm a writer myself, and his plays

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have been a great source
of inspiration to me.

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- What do you write?

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- I write short stories.

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- Really?

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- Have you been published?

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Come on, Oona.

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I want to introduce you to Billy Chandler.

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- He's here?

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- He is.

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- Oh, right now?

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Oh.
- Great.

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- Let's go.

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- Until me meet again,
Jerome David Salinger.

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- Come on, Oona doll.

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Billy.

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- Excuse me, sir, do you
happen to know the time?

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That went well.

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- Through the course

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of my fascinatingly dull life
I've always found fiction

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so much more truthful than reality.

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And yes, I'm aware of the irony.

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He had neither the looks,
personality, or good clothes

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to gain Shirley's interest.

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He didn't have a chance.

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And as I said before,
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boy meets girl story it's wise

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to have the boy meet the girl.

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- I can't concentrate with
you staring at me like that.

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- Well do you like it?

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- It's really good.

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- You can tell me the truth.

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- I am.

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It's terrific.

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Tie your shoes, sonny.

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- So what do you think, Mom?

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- I love the kids, I
love the way they talk.

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- Yeah, 'cause in the slicks
the teens always sound phony

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because they're written
by 50 year old drunks.

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You know, it just kills me.

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- Well, you're really talented.

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- I think I want to try to publish.

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- How would you do that?

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- I want to go back to school,
study creative writing.

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- You what?

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You get kicked out of
every school I send you to

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because of that smart alec mouth of yours.

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How do you possibly believe

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you could be a professional writer?

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- I don't know.

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I just like doing it.

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- He's very talented, Sol.

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- Even if he is,
it's impossible to make

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a living at it even for
the best of students.

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You're not even a good student.

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- I can't do anything right.

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- Sonny, sonny, come here, sit down.

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It's all right, please.

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I, I just don't want
you to be disappointed

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when it doesn't work out.

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And it won't.

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It never does.

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Listen to me.

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Meat and cheese distribution

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has been very good to this family.

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Six years ago Buddy Richmond
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He buys a slaughterhouse and
now he's king of the bacon.

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That could be you, sonny boy.

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- Jerry is not going to sell cheese,

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or pigs, or cows, or milk.

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He is not going to be
the king of the bacon.

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He is going to go to Columbia.

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He is going to study writing.

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That's what Jerry is going to do,

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and you are going to pay for it.

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- I bet if I never walked

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into your class that day
then Holden Caulfield

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probably wouldn't even exist.

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So in a way this whole mess

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is as much your fault as it is mine.

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- There is nothing more sacred than story.

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The Bible, the Quran, the Torah,

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the stories contained in
these books are so powerful

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that people actually believe
they were written by a God.

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That is the power that a story can hold.

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And in the course of this semester

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you will be given the
tools and the techniques

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to be able to create your own stories

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so that you can enrapture people, move...

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- I was always a lousy student,

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even when I wanted to be there.

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It was pretty embarrassing,
if you want to know the truth.

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- How does that sound, Mr. Salinger?

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- I'm so sorry, you lost me at Bible.

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- Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Salinger.

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Did you think that this
course was a study in atheism?

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- No, no, I didn't.

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But I'm hoping there really is a god

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that'll give you something
interesting to say.

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- Funny, I had the same thought

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when I read your admissions essay.

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Although they still let you in.

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It must be a very lean year for Columbia.

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Mr. Salinger wrote an essay, very funny,

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brimming with exactly the sort of sarcasm

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that he so beautifully displayed here

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in the first five minutes of the course.

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And yet after that Mr. Salinger failed

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to turn that clever voice of
his into an actual narrative.

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Which is a shame, because
there is some potential there.

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But this is the work we will
all be striving to achieve.

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And by the end of this
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or in Mr. Salinger's case, unwilling,

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you will all understand the difference

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between wanting to be a
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- My countrymen and my friends.

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I had hoped against hope that some miracle

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would prevent a devastating war in Europe

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and bring to an end the
invasion of Poland by Germany.

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I have said many times that I
have seen war and I hate war.

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I hope the United States
will keep out of this war.

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I believe that it will.

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- Oh Mr. Salinger.

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Come in, have a seat.

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Would you like a drink?

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- Coffee, please.

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So, how did you find me here?

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- Oh, I used to go to NYU and I always

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saw you grading papers in the window.

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Hey, why do you come all
the way down to the Village?

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- I couldn't think of a
better place to read the work

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of the next Fitzgerald or Hemingway

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than right here in Greenwich Village.

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- Sir.

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- Thank you.

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- What about you?

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What happened at NYU?

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They kick you out for that mouth of yours?

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- No, it was a mutual understanding.

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They wanted me gone
and I wanted them dead.

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- Well you're not the first

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wise ass I've taught, you know?

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You act out at authority figures like me

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because you're emotionally
repressed at home.

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You also think you're the cleverest boy

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that ever walked the planet

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and no one recognizes
what a genius you are.

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It's pretty typical stuff, if
you want to know the truth.

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But enough of my dime store Freud.

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What can I do for you, Mr. Salinger?

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- Well, I wanted to ask about

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what you talked about in class.

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You know, my voice overwhelming the story.

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I always thought my voice is
what defines me as a writer.

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- Absolutely.

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Your voice is what
makes your story unique.

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But when that voice overwhelms the story,

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as it did in your admissions essay,

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then it becomes an
expression more of your ego

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than of the emotional
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Does that make sense?

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- Kind of.

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- Kind of.

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- No.

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- I'd apologize for being late.

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But since I'm going to be late

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for every single class this semester

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I'm going to instead save my strength

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for the reading of your
pages and heavy drinking.

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Now today I want to focus
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And to illustrate this I'm going to

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read a passage to you
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All right now I want
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In fact, close your eyes.

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The jailer cut her down
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Then he beat her and whipped her.

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She had hung herself with her dress.

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All right, so, what happened?

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- A woman in jail tried to commit suicide.

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And after the jailer
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- Exactly.

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This is why I let women audit my classes.

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Hopefully the rest of the
university will soon follow suit.

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All right now, I read this passage

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in as dull a voice as I
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and yet you were still all
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Why?

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Because the events of the
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thematically layered, and dramatic.

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Now of course Faulkner
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with its unique regional style.

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And so therefore even the non-writer

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thinks that they love Faulkner.

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But in fact it is the events of the story,

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the attempted suicide, the
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And then Faulkner uses his voice

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to make the story uniquely his own.

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Does that make sense?

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For our next class I want you all

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to write a five page story.

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Ask yourselves, if I were
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would I still keep the class' attention?

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Okay, well I'm really not going to do

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any better than that today, so that's it.

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You can use the rest of the time

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to write your story or masturbate.

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Just try not to confuse
the former with the latter.

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God knows there's many an author

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who has failed at that very task.

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Have a good weekend.

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See you later, children.

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- The one good
thing about being stuck

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in a nuthouse is everyone here

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is in the same lousy shape as I am.

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Truth be told, I never really fitted

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00:14:36,247 --> 00:14:38,759
anywhere in the whole goddam world.

263
00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,399
Uptown I was a Jew,
downtown I was a square.

264
00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,162
But on occasion I could fool the girls

265
00:14:44,163 --> 00:14:46,686
into thinking I was Clark Gable's cousin.

266
00:14:46,687 --> 00:14:48,639
- Bravo, bravo.

267
00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,639
- Keep giving 'em hell, Ernie.

268
00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:52,480
- You know what?

269
00:14:52,481 --> 00:14:54,005
I actually think I keep on
getting kicked out of school

270
00:14:54,006 --> 00:14:56,199
'cause I love how much
it pisses my father off.

271
00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:57,120
- That's hilarious.

272
00:14:57,121 --> 00:14:58,007
You need to go with that.

273
00:14:58,008 --> 00:15:00,799
You should write your story about that.

274
00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:01,800
- Nah.

275
00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:05,483
- You got your watch on?

276
00:15:05,484 --> 00:15:06,606
- Yes, why?

277
00:15:06,607 --> 00:15:10,286
- 'Cause you need to
give that girl the time.

278
00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:12,520
- Yes I do.

279
00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:17,240
Hi.
- Hi.

280
00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,599
- So you like jazz?

281
00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,250
- What do you think?

282
00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,839
- So um, what do you do most
of the time on weekends?

283
00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:28,682
- I don't know.

284
00:15:28,683 --> 00:15:31,524
What do you do most of
the time on weekends?

285
00:15:31,525 --> 00:15:33,399
- This and that.

286
00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,159
- This and that?

287
00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,239
I know that's code for
sowing your wild oats.

288
00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,159
- Sow your wild oats?

289
00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,439
Sorry, I don't follow.

290
00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,879
- Oh please.

291
00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,008
Chase around, Joe College.

292
00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,002
- "Sow the wild oats?

293
00:16:02,003 --> 00:16:03,923
"I don't think I get your drift."

294
00:16:03,924 --> 00:16:07,239
"You know, chase around, Joe College."

295
00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,765
Suddenly from the other side of the room

296
00:16:08,766 --> 00:16:11,399
a small blonde shrieked with laughter.

297
00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,359
- Yes, it was very good.

298
00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,202
Your voice was present and entertaining.

299
00:16:15,203 --> 00:16:17,771
But it helped tell the
story, it didn't become it.

300
00:16:17,772 --> 00:16:18,879
- I felt it.

301
00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:19,688
You know, I could tell when something

302
00:16:19,689 --> 00:16:20,839
I wrote was too clever.

303
00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:21,646
- Was it true?

304
00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:22,480
- Some of it.

305
00:16:22,481 --> 00:16:23,367
Some I made up.

306
00:16:23,368 --> 00:16:24,771
- Well you know what we call that?

307
00:16:24,772 --> 00:16:25,799
- What?

308
00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:26,959
- Writing.

309
00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:28,959
- So how do I get it published?

310
00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:29,802
- Well that's a bit ambitious

311
00:16:29,803 --> 00:16:31,919
for your first outing, don't you think?

312
00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,079
- A real writer publishes, right?

313
00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,682
That's the only way to
make a living at it.

314
00:16:34,683 --> 00:16:36,601
- Oh wait, let me guess,
your father told you that.

315
00:16:36,602 --> 00:16:37,726
- Well why don't you try the New Yorker?

316
00:16:37,727 --> 00:16:39,245
I'm sure that would impress him.

317
00:16:39,246 --> 00:16:42,679
- I was actually thinking Story Magazine.

318
00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:44,279
I love their pieces.

319
00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,199
- Do you know who the editor of Story is?

320
00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,200
- Yeah, you.

321
00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:49,364
- And on behalf of Story

322
00:16:49,365 --> 00:16:51,484
I would like to thank
you for your submission.

323
00:16:51,485 --> 00:16:54,131
Unfortunately we're going
to decline at this time.

324
00:16:54,132 --> 00:16:58,159
But we do look forward to
reading your future submissions.

325
00:16:58,160 --> 00:16:59,639
Mr. Salinger, you're about to learn

326
00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,879
the second most important lesson

327
00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,848
in having a career as a writer.

328
00:17:02,849 --> 00:17:05,446
Learning to deal with rejection.

329
00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,719
- Well I'm going straight
to the New Yorker,

330
00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:09,480
and they're going to publish it,

331
00:17:09,481 --> 00:17:10,606
and you're going to be sorry.

332
00:17:10,607 --> 00:17:11,886
- I already am.

333
00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,119
- Hi, I'm here to submit...

334
00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:23,201
- Submit a short story?

335
00:17:23,202 --> 00:17:24,719
Fill this out.

336
00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,562
Leave your story.

337
00:17:25,563 --> 00:17:29,087
We'll get back to you
in four to six weeks.

338
00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,402
- It's the first story
I've ever submitted.

339
00:17:33,403 --> 00:17:36,688
- Well that's a historic day for us all.

340
00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,719
What's the J.D. stand for?

341
00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,961
- It's juvenile delinquent.

342
00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,405
- Don't write that.

343
00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,643
- And I want those
rewrites before next week.

344
00:17:52,644 --> 00:17:54,083
And do not get used to the idea

345
00:17:54,084 --> 00:17:55,605
of me staying for each class.

346
00:17:55,606 --> 00:17:57,648
My dinner plans canceled.

347
00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,599
Oh, it's your first rejection letter.

348
00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,039
You have to get that framed.

349
00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:05,119
- So what do I do now?

350
00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:05,960
- You're a writer.

351
00:18:05,961 --> 00:18:07,119
What do you think you do now?

352
00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:08,281
- Write another story?

353
00:18:08,282 --> 00:18:10,521
- Yes, and then write
another one after that.

354
00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,404
And then another one after that.

355
00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:20,202
- Okay.

356
00:18:20,203 --> 00:18:23,010
- And then another one after that!

357
00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,083
- Perhaps my
dreams of literary triumph

358
00:18:28,084 --> 00:18:30,599
were the delusions of an egotistical

359
00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,001
and overly ambitious boy
who should have listened

360
00:18:33,002 --> 00:18:37,130
when he was offered the chance
to be the king of the bacon.

361
00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,651
I could have been a king, Whit.

362
00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,039
- I don't know
if I'm cut out for this.

363
00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,088
- Yeah, maybe you're not.

364
00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:53,839
- You don't think I am?

365
00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,399
- Well, let me ask you a question.

366
00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,599
Why do you want to do this?

367
00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:00,600
- Publish?

368
00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:02,760
- No.

369
00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,079
Be a writer.

370
00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,128
Why do you want to write?

371
00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,639
- Because I, I get angry
about a lot of things.

372
00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,961
And when I'm writing I feel
like I'm doing something

373
00:19:16,962 --> 00:19:19,519
about it, like I'm finally
getting to speak my mind.

374
00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:20,567
- You see, Jerry, this is what you need

375
00:19:20,568 --> 00:19:22,919
to be doing in your writing.

376
00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,446
Explore what it is that makes you angry

377
00:19:25,447 --> 00:19:27,839
and then put that into a story.

378
00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,571
No, no, no, but here's the catch.

379
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,999
You still may never publish.

380
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:34,842
- Never?

381
00:19:34,843 --> 00:19:36,039
- Nope.

382
00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,799
You may spend the rest of
your life being rejected.

383
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,359
And now you have to ask
yourself a question.

384
00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:48,490
Are you willing to devote
your life to telling stories

385
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,161
knowing that you may
get nothing in return?

386
00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,648
And if the answer to that question is no,

387
00:19:59,649 --> 00:20:01,999
well then you should go out there

388
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,083
and find yourself something
else to do with your life

389
00:20:05,084 --> 00:20:07,890
because you are not a true writer.

390
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,126
Good day, thank you very much.

391
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,086
No, no, no, no, take
your rejections with you.

392
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:49,601
- Would you look at this place?

393
00:20:49,602 --> 00:20:50,806
It's beautiful.

394
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,799
You'll find something else
you like to do, sonny.

395
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:55,767
You'll see.

396
00:20:55,768 --> 00:20:58,039
And it'll be something you
can actually make a buck at.

397
00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,849
- Try not to worry about
anything this week, dear.

398
00:20:59,850 --> 00:21:02,889
It's a vacation and you should relax.

399
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,402
- She had immense
eyes that always seemed

400
00:21:56,403 --> 00:21:59,879
in danger of capsizing
in their own innocence.

401
00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,959
She was with a small boy,
unmistakeably her brother.

402
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,564
And it was only when
his sister spoke to him

403
00:22:04,565 --> 00:22:05,925
that he came around and applied

404
00:22:05,926 --> 00:22:08,279
the small of his back to his chair.

405
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,736
Now there are two kinds of femme fatale.

406
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,205
The noise of young people she'd invited.

407
00:22:11,206 --> 00:22:12,685
Sewing, mastering crossword puzzles.

408
00:22:12,686 --> 00:22:14,086
Her father's scotch was inadequate.

409
00:22:14,087 --> 00:22:15,605
Inside somebody up turned up...

410
00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:22,282
- Jerry, your sister didn't
drive all the way up here

411
00:22:22,283 --> 00:22:25,559
to watch you write in
a lobby for five days.

412
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,722
Now, put that away and
come with us for a stroll.

413
00:22:28,723 --> 00:22:30,085
- I will in one hour.

414
00:22:30,086 --> 00:22:31,639
I'm almost done, okay?

415
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,804
- What makes you think you
have anything to say to people?

416
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:42,960
- Grow up.

417
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,561
- Oh Jerry, would you
hang back for a minute.

418
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,399
Now that you have made a true
commitment to your craft,

419
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,559
I think it's time.

420
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,528
- Time for what?

421
00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:21,488
- For you to be published.

422
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:23,880
- In?

423
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,162
This is the first damn story I gave you.

424
00:23:36,163 --> 00:23:37,639
- Oh, I loved it right away.

425
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:38,926
I just had to be sure
you were a real writer

426
00:23:38,927 --> 00:23:40,729
before I published it.

427
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,560
So, this is your first
check as a real writer.

428
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,880
- Thank you.

429
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,679
Thank you so much.

430
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:00,602
- You're welcome.

431
00:24:00,603 --> 00:24:01,839
Now go write another story.

432
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,639
- To publishing.
- To publishing.

433
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,359
So, your old man finally impressed?

434
00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,200
- No.

435
00:24:11,201 --> 00:24:12,087
When I showed him the check he told me

436
00:24:12,088 --> 00:24:14,081
I could finally afford a
suit to get a real job.

437
00:24:14,082 --> 00:24:15,241
- To hell with him.

438
00:24:15,242 --> 00:24:17,481
He's just jealous because
you're a paid writer.

439
00:24:17,482 --> 00:24:20,519
He's nothing but a lousy Jew pig seller.

440
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:21,360
- Do you know he hides the fact

441
00:24:21,361 --> 00:24:22,646
that he's Jewish from our neighbors?

442
00:24:22,647 --> 00:24:23,759
Always has.

443
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,890
The first phony I ever met
was on the clay I was born.

444
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,159
What the hell are they doing?

445
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,161
- The Stork Club advertises

446
00:24:34,162 --> 00:24:36,364
that Oona comes here 'cause of her dad.

447
00:24:36,365 --> 00:24:39,091
But they only photograph her drinking milk

448
00:24:39,092 --> 00:24:41,159
because she's underage.

449
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,481
- That could be the most
pathetic thing I've ever seen.

450
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,319
All right, that's my cue.

451
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,924
I'm going in.
- Ooh.

452
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:55,120
- Oona.

453
00:24:55,121 --> 00:24:55,960
- Mm.

454
00:24:55,961 --> 00:24:57,562
- It's so lovely to see
you again, Carol, Blythe.

455
00:24:57,563 --> 00:24:58,400
- I'm Blythe.

456
00:24:58,401 --> 00:24:59,206
- Great.

457
00:24:59,207 --> 00:25:00,439
If you don't mind I'm going to give

458
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,919
the most beautiful girl
in the world a twirl.

459
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,402
- Oh, all right.

460
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,079
I read your piece in Story.

461
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:16,888
- You read Story?

462
00:25:16,889 --> 00:25:19,239
- I read everything.

463
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,969
- What did you think?

464
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,159
- I thought it was marvelous.

465
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,447
No, it was simply marvelous.

466
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,039
- Thank you.

467
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,566
You're without a doubt the most
special girl I've ever seen.

468
00:25:32,567 --> 00:25:36,690
- And you're very
handsome, Jerome David Salinger.

469
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:51,959
What do you think?

470
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:52,880
- I love it.

471
00:25:52,881 --> 00:25:53,720
- Yeah?

472
00:25:53,721 --> 00:25:54,605
- Yeah, how long have you lived here?

473
00:25:54,606 --> 00:25:55,440
- Just a few months.

474
00:25:55,441 --> 00:25:56,911
But I don't think I'll
be here much longer.

475
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,079
- Why, where are you going to go?

476
00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,080
- Hollywood.

477
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:01,242
If I want to get into pictures

478
00:26:01,243 --> 00:26:03,759
that's the place to be, right?

479
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,759
- Well, I used to want to be an actor.

480
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:07,566
- Really?

481
00:26:07,567 --> 00:26:08,402
- But I hate Hollywood.

482
00:26:08,403 --> 00:26:10,359
It's a bunch of driving jerks

483
00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:12,120
making crap for knuckleheads
that can't read.

484
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:15,680
- You're funny.

485
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,049
And you're so talented.

486
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,481
I love talent.

487
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,520
- Don't go to California.

488
00:26:25,521 --> 00:26:26,519
- Why?

489
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:27,965
- I think it's better if you stay here,

490
00:26:27,966 --> 00:26:30,008
stay here and do theater.

491
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,639
Have you asked your dad to
put you in any of his plays?

492
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:36,919
- Mm-mm.

493
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:37,920
- Why?

494
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,439
- I guess, we don't speak very often.

495
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,679
- Um, I'm sorry I didn't.

496
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:46,919
- It's all right.

497
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,762
You know, I haven't seen him

498
00:26:47,763 --> 00:26:51,079
since I was a little girl actually.

499
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,880
You know, I don't know
why he doesn't love me.

500
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,807
I never did anything wrong.

501
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,206
- My dad doesn't love me either.

502
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,039
I should, I should, I should probably go.

503
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:14,882
- Jerry.

504
00:27:14,883 --> 00:27:16,079
- No, it's...

505
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:16,888
- Jerry, you don't have to.

506
00:27:16,889 --> 00:27:18,166
- If I get back to my writing

507
00:27:18,167 --> 00:27:20,279
I could get a lot done tonight.

508
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:21,086
- Okay.

509
00:27:21,087 --> 00:27:22,087
- Um,

510
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,240
do you want to go dancing Friday?

511
00:27:24,241 --> 00:27:25,080
- Yes.

512
00:27:25,081 --> 00:27:25,922
- Yes?

513
00:27:25,923 --> 00:27:27,319
- Yes, I'd love to.

514
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,559
- All right, me too.

515
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:29,560
- Okay.

516
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,326
- Good.
- Okay.

517
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,490
- That's the thing about girls.

518
00:27:43,491 --> 00:27:44,925
Every time they do something pretty

519
00:27:44,926 --> 00:27:47,571
you fall half in love with them.

520
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,759
And then you never know
where the hell you are.

521
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,879
- Jerry, Jerry, Jerry,
hang in there, my love.

522
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,083
I know it can be a slog

523
00:27:59,084 --> 00:28:01,885
but you've got to stick
out these dry spells.

524
00:28:01,886 --> 00:28:03,562
Everyone loves the writing.

525
00:28:03,563 --> 00:28:06,159
I get terrific feedback
every time I submit you.

526
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,002
- Well that's terrific, but I haven't

527
00:28:07,003 --> 00:28:09,039
had a story published in eight months.

528
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,121
- Well, have you thought
about writing something

529
00:28:10,122 --> 00:28:12,839
with a little more pop to it,
most Post than New Yorker.

530
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:13,646
- No, I hate the Post.

531
00:28:13,647 --> 00:28:14,924
It's a bunch of sentimental crap.

532
00:28:14,925 --> 00:28:15,805
- I know.

533
00:28:15,806 --> 00:28:16,847
- I want to be a New Yorker writer.

534
00:28:16,848 --> 00:28:19,566
- And you will be, but
it's never easy, my love.

535
00:28:19,567 --> 00:28:22,639
There's no harm in dumbing
it down once in a while.

536
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,051
We've just got to get you published again.

537
00:28:24,052 --> 00:28:26,439
Publishing is everything.

538
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,206
- I don't even know what
I should write about.

539
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,400
- Oh Jerry.

540
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,399
First of all, you need to relax.

541
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,279
You're not going to do better
work being so stressed.

542
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,090
Take that pretty girlfriend
of yours on a date.

543
00:28:44,091 --> 00:28:45,206
Have some fun.

544
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,199
How's it going with her?

545
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,679
- Hey, Pearl.

546
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,239
- I'm sorry, Jerry, but Oona isn't here.

547
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,239
She left for the Hamptons this morning.

548
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,879
- She did what?

549
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,199
We had a date.

550
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:04,531
- You know Oona.

551
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,244
- Yeah, okay, thanks.

552
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,199
- Maybe I'm just not capable

553
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,164
of experiencing happiness like the fellow

554
00:29:29,165 --> 00:29:30,525
that works at a lousy job

555
00:29:30,526 --> 00:29:34,570
and has a pretty wife and
a bunch of stupid kids.

556
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,450
Maybe I didn't lose my mind at all.

557
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,928
Maybe I never had it in the first place.

558
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,639
- You should get out of here, kid.

559
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,526
- He made his
way into the men's room

560
00:30:13,527 --> 00:30:15,841
and filled both washbowls with cold water.

561
00:30:15,842 --> 00:30:18,207
"You want a towel, fella?"
asked the piano player.

562
00:30:18,208 --> 00:30:20,559
"Not me," said Holden.

563
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,402
"Why don't you go home, kid?"

564
00:30:22,403 --> 00:30:24,162
Holden Caulfield went on drinking.

565
00:30:24,163 --> 00:30:25,603
- Hello, it's me, Jerry Salinger.

566
00:30:25,604 --> 00:30:26,999
I just want to speak to Oona.

567
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:27,887
- She's asleep.

568
00:30:27,888 --> 00:30:29,525
Why are you calling so late?

569
00:30:29,526 --> 00:30:31,884
- "This is me, Holden Caulfield.

570
00:30:31,885 --> 00:30:33,159
"Can I speak to Sally, please?"

571
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,045
- I just want us to be together.

572
00:30:34,046 --> 00:30:35,199
It doesn't have to be anything serious.

573
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,040
- It doesn't have to be anything serious?

574
00:30:36,041 --> 00:30:36,880
- I don't want anything serious, no.

575
00:30:36,881 --> 00:30:37,765
- Jerry, you just said otherwise.

576
00:30:37,766 --> 00:30:38,600
- I, don't twist my words.

577
00:30:38,601 --> 00:30:39,440
- You are just, you know what you are?

578
00:30:39,441 --> 00:30:40,280
You're just such a phony.

579
00:30:40,281 --> 00:30:41,086
- No, I'm not a phony.
- You are.

580
00:30:41,087 --> 00:30:42,167
You're just...
- Go to hell.

581
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:48,600
Oona.

582
00:30:48,601 --> 00:30:49,442
- What?

583
00:30:49,443 --> 00:30:52,091
- Oona, can I call you tomorrow?

584
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,202
- His teeth
chattering violently,

585
00:31:00,203 --> 00:31:01,884
Holden Caulfield stood on the corner

586
00:31:01,885 --> 00:31:05,009
and waited for the Madison Avenue bus.

587
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,129
- It was a long wait.

588
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,399
No, we didn't order champagne.

589
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,400
- I did.

590
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,527
I asked you here so we could celebrate.

591
00:31:30,528 --> 00:31:32,639
- Ah, celebrate what?

592
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,961
- I have some exciting news.

593
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,239
The New Yorker read Slight
Rebellion Off Madison,

594
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,527
and they want to publish it.

595
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:44,488
- The New Yorker?

596
00:31:44,489 --> 00:31:46,687
- Yes, they love your
Holden Caulfield character.

597
00:31:46,688 --> 00:31:49,279
They feel he's completely original.

598
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:50,759
I'm so happy for you, Jerry.

599
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,205
- The New Yorker, I can't believe it.

600
00:31:52,206 --> 00:31:55,039
- Well believe it, my love.

601
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,166
To publishing.

602
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,168
It really is everything.

603
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,368
Now they have a couple of notes

604
00:32:06,369 --> 00:32:09,679
that they want you to address.

605
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:10,839
- Notes?

606
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:11,682
- Yes.

607
00:32:11,683 --> 00:32:14,246
All writers have to go through
this with every magazine.

608
00:32:14,247 --> 00:32:16,439
And the New Yorker has
more notes than most.

609
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,327
They want all their stories

610
00:32:17,328 --> 00:32:20,529
to have a New Yorker signature to them.

611
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,123
- What if I don't want to do the notes?

612
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,010
- They told me their
problems with the story.

613
00:32:33,011 --> 00:32:34,490
Should I tell you?

614
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,799
- Sure, sure, okay,
tell me their problems.

615
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,211
- First off, they think Holden's drinking

616
00:32:41,212 --> 00:32:42,839
comes out of nowhere.

617
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,319
They want it to be
clearer he's an alcoholic.

618
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,045
- No, he's not an alcoholic.

619
00:32:47,046 --> 00:32:48,403
He's just getting drunk

620
00:32:48,404 --> 00:32:49,959
because he's depressed about the girl.

621
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,562
- Well, they
think that's unclear.

622
00:32:51,563 --> 00:32:52,402
- I don't.

623
00:32:52,403 --> 00:32:54,719
I think that's perfectly clear.

624
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,722
- Well maybe you can
make a slight adjustment

625
00:32:56,723 --> 00:32:59,883
so it's not confusing for some people.

626
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,162
Also they think it would
be nice if in the end

627
00:33:04,163 --> 00:33:07,359
Holden and Sally got back together.

628
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,119
They specifically said
we don't need to see it.

629
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:10,960
We just want the reader

630
00:33:10,961 --> 00:33:12,166
to have a sense that they'll end up...

631
00:33:12,167 --> 00:33:13,599
- But they don't end up together.

632
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:14,599
That's not what happens.

633
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:15,406
- Why not?

634
00:33:15,407 --> 00:33:16,242
- Because people don't end up together.

635
00:33:16,243 --> 00:33:18,479
It usually doesn't work out.

636
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,923
Okay, I know in every goddam
story in every goddam magazine

637
00:33:20,924 --> 00:33:23,443
the couple always falls
in love with a stupid kiss

638
00:33:23,444 --> 00:33:24,999
to make us feel all warm and fuzzy

639
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,001
and full of Christmas cheer.

640
00:33:26,002 --> 00:33:28,999
But that's not what happens in real life.

641
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,885
Someone always gets their heart broken

642
00:33:30,886 --> 00:33:32,722
and has a hard time getting over it.

643
00:33:32,723 --> 00:33:35,087
Sometimes they drink
because they're upset,

644
00:33:35,088 --> 00:33:37,970
even though they're not alcoholics.

645
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,365
I just want my writing to
be truthful, that's all.

646
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,439
- So what would you like me to tell them?

647
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,559
- Tell them I'm very open to notes,

648
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,684
but Holden's not an alcoholic

649
00:33:56,685 --> 00:33:57,886
and they don't end up together.

650
00:33:57,887 --> 00:33:59,803
- Those are the only notes, Jerry.

651
00:33:59,804 --> 00:34:03,441
- Well tell them I won't
make those changes.

652
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:12,449
- You're so talented.

653
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,008
Give Oona a little twirl?

654
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,127
- So get this.

655
00:34:29,128 --> 00:34:30,519
I told Oona about the New Yorker.

656
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:31,485
- And?

657
00:34:31,486 --> 00:34:32,845
- We've already been out three times.

658
00:34:32,846 --> 00:34:34,439
- To the New Yorker.

659
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:35,851
- The New Yorker.

660
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,159
- Did they have any notes?

661
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,479
- Who?

662
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,719
- The New Yorker.

663
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:46,759
Did they have any notes on the story?

664
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:47,760
- No.

665
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,364
- Well I'm not surprised they loved it.

666
00:34:52,365 --> 00:34:54,439
That Holden character is fantastic.

667
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:55,930
It's exactly what I've been telling you

668
00:34:55,931 --> 00:34:57,039
about digging deeper.

669
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,769
- Yeah, yeah, I felt it
when I was writing him.

670
00:34:58,770 --> 00:35:00,959
It just flowed out of me.

671
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,325
I want to keep writing stories about him.

672
00:35:02,326 --> 00:35:03,367
- You should.

673
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:07,880
- Well.

674
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,559
- Another.

675
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,449
- You okay there, boss?

676
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,524
- Well, between you and me,
things aren't great at Story.

677
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,119
Money is tight.

678
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,805
I mean, Martha watches
the finances and me.

679
00:35:25,806 --> 00:35:29,479
Apparently I'm still
spending too much money.

680
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:30,811
- You'll have to shut it down?

681
00:35:30,812 --> 00:35:33,849
- No, no, we'll be all right for now.

682
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,162
But it's been tough on us.

683
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:41,407
I got an eye.

684
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,729
I can spot talent coming a mile away.

685
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,439
Saroyan, Cheever, Caldwell,
I discovered them all.

686
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,761
Of course, it would be nice
if somebody discovered me.

687
00:35:53,762 --> 00:35:55,842
- Hey, come on, you've been published.

688
00:35:55,843 --> 00:35:58,239
- I not only discovered them,

689
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,971
I shaped them, I challenged them.

690
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,920
This is me.

691
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,087
You should continue to write about Holden,

692
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,408
but not as a short story.

693
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:19,290
- Well, hang on, wait, wait, wait, wait.

694
00:36:19,291 --> 00:36:20,645
What do you mean?

695
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,249
- I think Holden Caulfield is a novel.

696
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,931
- No, no, I couldn't write a whole novel.

697
00:36:30,932 --> 00:36:32,839
I'm a dash man, not a miler.

698
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:36,083
- You only say that because you're lazy.

699
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,250
Holden Caulfield deserves an
entire book all on his own.

700
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,484
- A novel's a lot of words.

701
00:36:47,485 --> 00:36:49,369
- It's just more words.

702
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,039
Imagine the book that
you would want to read

703
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,359
and then go write it.

704
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,968
- Hey, Mom, what's wrong?

705
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:29,919
Mom.

706
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,605
Hey, what is it, what's happened?

707
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:34,842
- We interrupt this broadcast

708
00:37:34,843 --> 00:37:38,364
to bring you this important
bulletin from the United Press.

709
00:37:38,365 --> 00:37:41,362
We have witnessed this morning
the attack of Pearl Harbor

710
00:37:41,363 --> 00:37:43,249
and the severe bombing of Pearl Harbor

711
00:37:43,250 --> 00:37:46,289
by army planes, undoubtedly Japanese.

712
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,040
It's no joke, it's a real war.

713
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,287
- I don't care what you say.

714
00:37:56,288 --> 00:37:58,244
I'm sending you socks every week

715
00:37:58,245 --> 00:37:59,603
and you had better wear them.

716
00:37:59,604 --> 00:38:01,039
- Please, you'll embarrass me.

717
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,690
They're going to supply
everything I need and...

718
00:38:02,691 --> 00:38:06,079
- Everyone, can I have
your attention please?

719
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,479
As you all know, tomorrow morning

720
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,839
our son Jerry is going off to war.

721
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,922
Perhaps this will turn him into the man

722
00:38:13,923 --> 00:38:16,491
I know he's destined to become.

723
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,084
- And I would like to propose a toast

724
00:38:20,085 --> 00:38:22,162
to the best student I've ever had.

725
00:38:22,163 --> 00:38:25,039
To Jerry, a wonderful writer,

726
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,439
an inspiration, and a great friend.

727
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:28,839
To Jerry.

728
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,251
- To Jerry.

729
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,322
- This may not be the best
timing but I have some bad news.

730
00:38:39,323 --> 00:38:40,526
- Really, what?

731
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:42,967
- The New Yorker isn't going to run

732
00:38:42,968 --> 00:38:45,167
the Holden Caulfield story.

733
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,200
- Why not?

734
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,167
- They think it's too frivolous

735
00:38:49,168 --> 00:38:51,731
now that we've entered the war.

736
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:55,599
I'm sorry, Jerry.

737
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:56,886
- No, it's fine.

738
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,041
Promise you'll wait for me.

739
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:16,525
- I promise.

740
00:39:16,526 --> 00:39:17,526
- Really?

741
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,930
- Of course, Jerry.

742
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:36,079
- Well, she is an actress.

743
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,127
- Hey, hey, mark my words.

744
00:39:37,128 --> 00:39:39,119
I will marry that girl.

745
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:39,962
- Well it's a good thing her father's

746
00:39:39,963 --> 00:39:43,442
a comedy writer.

747
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,561
- Anyway, how's everything
at the home front with you?

748
00:39:47,562 --> 00:39:49,399
You good with Martha chewing your ear?

749
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:50,524
- Everything at my home is fine.

750
00:39:50,525 --> 00:39:51,360
- Yeah?

751
00:39:51,361 --> 00:39:52,407
- Because what you'll
learn about having a wife

752
00:39:52,408 --> 00:39:56,041
is that occasionally she just
has to yell to feel better.

753
00:39:57,240 --> 00:40:01,370
Oh, and by the way, I'm awfully
sorry about the New Yorker.

754
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,964
- How'd you know about that?

755
00:40:05,965 --> 00:40:07,079
- Oh please.

756
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,241
They canned the Caulfield story

757
00:40:08,242 --> 00:40:10,125
because you wouldn't
take any of their notes.

758
00:40:10,126 --> 00:40:12,327
You know, you cannot be a pain in the ass

759
00:40:12,328 --> 00:40:14,079
until you're a success.

760
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,080
- Yeah?

761
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:17,405
Well to hell with the New Yorker.

762
00:40:17,406 --> 00:40:18,206
You know what?

763
00:40:18,207 --> 00:40:20,121
I'll put it in an anthology
with other short stories...

764
00:40:20,122 --> 00:40:21,565
- No, no, no, don't do
that, don't do that.

765
00:40:21,566 --> 00:40:23,642
Don't do that to Holden Caulfield.

766
00:40:23,643 --> 00:40:25,290
He deserves a novel.

767
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:27,520
- You really think so?

768
00:40:27,521 --> 00:40:28,362
- I know so.

769
00:40:28,363 --> 00:40:30,567
He's a fantastic character.

770
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,159
Listen to me.

771
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,083
While you're over there, you know,

772
00:40:35,084 --> 00:40:39,599
getting clap from all those
French whores, do me a favor.

773
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,409
I want you to write about him.

774
00:40:41,410 --> 00:40:45,519
I want Holden Caulfield
to be your best friend.

775
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:46,919
And listen to me.

776
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,039
Stay alive, all right?

777
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,040
Stay alive.

778
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,519
No matter what.

779
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,250
- After I enlisted in the army

780
00:41:09,251 --> 00:41:10,765
I bounced from base to base

781
00:41:10,766 --> 00:41:14,481
until they finally
shipped me off to England.

782
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:17,121
I knew army food would be bad,

783
00:41:17,122 --> 00:41:19,327
but they'd promised us a steak dinner

784
00:41:19,328 --> 00:41:22,130
the night before the big invasion.

785
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,559
I just couldn't start the Caulfield novel.

786
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:28,846
That's why I kept
sending you short stories

787
00:41:28,847 --> 00:41:32,128
for the anthology I was writing instead.

788
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,686
I had never written anything so personal.

789
00:41:35,687 --> 00:41:38,246
That's why he was a
first person character.

790
00:41:38,247 --> 00:41:40,686
I didn't want to begin Holden's
story because I was scared

791
00:41:40,687 --> 00:41:44,048
I wouldn't live long enough to finish it.

792
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,559
- Hey, Jerry,
how's your girlfriend?

793
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:17,923
- I wish they'd all just forget about it.

794
00:42:17,924 --> 00:42:18,760
- Bye, lover boy.

795
00:42:18,761 --> 00:42:19,600
- Come on, Jer.

796
00:42:19,601 --> 00:42:20,487
You're the first guy to ever get dumped

797
00:42:20,488 --> 00:42:22,926
on the front page of every
newspaper in the country.

798
00:42:22,927 --> 00:42:24,759
It's pretty nuts.

799
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,879
Chaplain's old enough to be her father.

800
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:27,722
- Well, what can I say?

801
00:42:27,723 --> 00:42:30,999
Everyone loves that little tramp.

802
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,399
- And a scandal
that has rocked the nation.

803
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,448
The biggest movie star in
the world, Charlie Chaplain

804
00:42:35,449 --> 00:42:37,165
has married the 18 year old daughter

805
00:42:37,166 --> 00:42:39,367
of famed playwright Eugene O'Neill,

806
00:42:39,368 --> 00:42:43,439
who has declared that she has
finally met her true love.

807
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,849
- It's just more words.

808
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,403
- "Holden Caulfield," she said.

809
00:43:19,404 --> 00:43:20,686
"It's marvelous to see you.

810
00:43:20,687 --> 00:43:22,599
"It's been ages."

811
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,166
She had one of those very
loud embarrassing voices

812
00:43:25,167 --> 00:43:26,839
when you met her somewhere.

813
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,081
She got away with it because
she was so damn good looking

814
00:43:29,082 --> 00:43:32,159
that it always gave me a pain in the ass.

815
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,764
"It's swell to see ya," I said.

816
00:43:33,765 --> 00:43:35,239
I meant it too.

817
00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:36,719
"How are ya anyway?"

818
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:38,759
"Grand," she said.

819
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,719
If there's one word I hate it's grand.

820
00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:42,846
It's so phony.

821
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:09,402
- This is a momentous hour

822
00:44:09,403 --> 00:44:11,368
in world history, D-Day.

823
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:13,922
The men of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

824
00:44:13,923 --> 00:44:17,527
are fighting their way up
the beaches in fire and blood

825
00:44:17,528 --> 00:44:20,799
into the fortress of Nazi Europe.

826
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,768
Casualties in this mammoth operation

827
00:44:22,769 --> 00:44:24,888
may reach a dreadful toll.

828
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:49,202
- I had stormed Normandy

829
00:44:49,203 --> 00:44:51,159
with six chapters in my bag.

830
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,321
And I'd be lying if I didn't tell ya

831
00:44:52,322 --> 00:44:55,839
Holden got me through some rough spells.

832
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,410
He gave me something to focus on

833
00:44:57,411 --> 00:45:00,131
when things weren't going so hot.

834
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,004
That's one of the things I
loved most about writing.

835
00:45:06,005 --> 00:45:07,764
Your mind keeps on working on your stories

836
00:45:07,765 --> 00:45:12,119
whether you've got a pen
or a gun in your hand.

837
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,399
It just never stops creating.

838
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:25,962
- You okay?

839
00:45:25,963 --> 00:45:28,122
- You've got to help me, just help me.

840
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:41,800
- Hey, hey.

841
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,085
- I did everything
I could to keep on writing.

842
00:45:56,086 --> 00:45:57,127
I really did.

843
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,359
No pen, no typewriter.

844
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:02,805
To hell with them.

845
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,602
I kept on telling Holden's story,

846
00:46:06,603 --> 00:46:09,399
even if it was only to myself.

847
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,041
- If I get pneumonia
then I'll probably die.

848
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,841
There'll be millions
of jerks at my funeral.

849
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:36,806
- Jerry, Jerry.

850
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,724
You're going to be all right, okay?

851
00:46:39,725 --> 00:46:40,839
All right?

852
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,649
You've just got to warm up a bit, okay?

853
00:46:42,650 --> 00:46:44,719
Come on, here we go.

854
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:46,319
All right.

855
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,529
Hey, hey, you just gotta warm up, okay?

856
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,799
I brought the socks your mom sent you?

857
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,370
She's a smart lady, Jer.

858
00:46:57,371 --> 00:46:59,159
All right, take 'em.

859
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,919
Keep you warm, all right, okay?

860
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,199
I'm not going anywhere.

861
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,051
- Jerry?

862
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,719
Jerry, can you hear me?

863
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:11,359
Jerry, I want you to look at me.

864
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,647
Could you look at me, Jerry?

865
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,247
Jerry, squeeze my hand if you can hear me.

866
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,839
- I'm truly sorry
you wasted all that time on me.

867
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,524
But you gotta believe me when I tell you,

868
00:50:05,525 --> 00:50:07,727
I have nothing left to say.

869
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:13,439
About Holden Caulfield or
anything else for that matter.

870
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,091
Sincerely yours, Jerry Salinger.

871
00:50:21,083 --> 00:50:22,759
- He's here.

872
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:23,799
- Is he still crazy?

873
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:24,606
- Ssh.

874
00:50:24,607 --> 00:50:25,761
- Welcome home, sonny.

875
00:50:25,762 --> 00:50:28,206
All the way home from Germany.

876
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:34,360
- Hi Mom.

877
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:40,839
Doris.

878
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,126
- Jerry.

879
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,400
- Uh, this is my wife, Sylvia.

880
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:58,969
This is my mom, Miriam.

881
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,648
That's my sister, Doris.

882
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,839
And that's my father, Sol.

883
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:09,840
- Hello.

884
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:27,479
Sonny, you were interrogating
Nazis after the war?

885
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,162
- Yeah, we were trying to find out

886
00:51:29,163 --> 00:51:30,924
where the Nazis were hiding.

887
00:51:30,925 --> 00:51:32,809
- That sounds exciting.

888
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,599
- So Sylvia, what do you do?

889
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,409
- She's a rodeo clown.

890
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:54,160
It's a joke.

891
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,600
- I'm a thermologist by
trade, before the war.

892
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,119
- When did you two get married?

893
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:05,645
- About six months ago.

894
00:52:05,646 --> 00:52:09,959
- Oh, that's when you stopped
responding to our letters.

895
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,851
- Well I haven't written
a word in over a year.

896
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:20,439
- Well, I hope you're going
to write stories again.

897
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,761
- Maybe after Whit publishes
the Young Folks anthology.

898
00:52:22,762 --> 00:52:25,809
It's the only reason why I came home.

899
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,129
And to see all of you.

900
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,042
Most of these I wrote
before I went to Europe,

901
00:53:06,043 --> 00:53:08,359
and a few I wrote during the war.

902
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:09,925
- And what about the Caulfield novel?

903
00:53:09,926 --> 00:53:11,331
Where are you with that?

904
00:53:11,332 --> 00:53:12,879
- About halfway.

905
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,611
- When do you think
you're going to finish?

906
00:53:15,612 --> 00:53:18,279
- Just, I can't work on it anymore.

907
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:19,120
- Why not?

908
00:53:19,121 --> 00:53:20,451
- It brings back too many memories.

909
00:53:20,452 --> 00:53:22,999
I want to forget it all.

910
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,639
- Well, have you written
anything since you got back?

911
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:28,640
- I tried.

912
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:31,885
I just can't do it.

913
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,164
- Well, we'll publish your anthology

914
00:53:35,165 --> 00:53:39,959
and I'll bet before long you'll
be back at that typewriter.

915
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:40,960
- Hope so.

916
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:44,728
I'm not getting enough sleep
so it's hard to concentrate.

917
00:53:44,729 --> 00:53:48,202
And sometimes I wake up and I'm screaming.

918
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,650
- These are all very common
post-war symptoms, Jerry, okay?

919
00:53:55,720 --> 00:53:58,485
And have you been painting at all?

920
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:04,850
- No, no, 'cause I'm not
a painter, I'm a writer.

921
00:54:04,851 --> 00:54:07,207
- Yes, yes of course, writer.

922
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:09,642
- And no.

923
00:54:09,643 --> 00:54:13,119
With the nightmares I just,

924
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:17,839
sometimes I have flashbacks of
the camps during the day too.

925
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,001
It's almost like I'm there.

926
00:54:19,002 --> 00:54:20,519
I can smell.

927
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:22,325
Is there anything I can do for that?

928
00:54:22,326 --> 00:54:24,284
- No, these are all
very common occurrences

929
00:54:24,285 --> 00:54:26,567
from soldiers returning from combat.

930
00:54:26,568 --> 00:54:28,528
It's just a phase, okay?

931
00:54:58,320 --> 00:54:59,320
- Hey.

932
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:01,400
- Hello.

933
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,159
So you've been drinking.

934
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,559
- No, no I haven't
touched a drop in years.

935
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:07,402
- Oh, that's right.

936
00:55:07,403 --> 00:55:08,925
You joined a temperance union.

937
00:55:08,926 --> 00:55:10,159
- Joined?

938
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:11,286
You mean started it.

939
00:55:11,287 --> 00:55:14,119
I also joined the divorce union.

940
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,239
Well kind of more annulled

941
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:17,683
if you want to get technical about it.

942
00:55:17,684 --> 00:55:18,522
- What happened?

943
00:55:18,523 --> 00:55:20,204
- Something that never should have.

944
00:55:20,205 --> 00:55:22,487
I think she might be a Nazi.

945
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:25,967
- Are you serious?

946
00:55:25,968 --> 00:55:29,931
- I don't know, maybe.

947
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,126
- Well now see, that is
something you should write about.

948
00:55:36,127 --> 00:55:38,559
Have you started up again?

949
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:39,402
- No.

950
00:55:39,403 --> 00:55:42,959
Um, you know, I think once
the anthology's published

951
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,799
that'll hopefully get me going again.

952
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:50,719
What?

953
00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:54,199
- The anthology's just turned out to be

954
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,522
a little more complicated than I thought.

955
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,119
- How?

956
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:01,722
- Well you know, we
don't publish on our own.

957
00:56:01,723 --> 00:56:02,526
We don't have the money for it.

958
00:56:02,527 --> 00:56:03,885
So we have this
relationship with Lippincott

959
00:56:03,886 --> 00:56:06,039
to finance a long form.

960
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,486
And they've rejected the book.

961
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,279
They don't want to publish it.

962
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:13,962
- So you're not going to publish
the Young Folks anthology?

963
00:56:13,963 --> 00:56:14,800
- Look, if it was up to me, Jerry.

964
00:56:14,801 --> 00:56:15,642
It's them.

965
00:56:15,643 --> 00:56:17,881
I nearly ended the relationship with them.

966
00:56:17,882 --> 00:56:19,323
- You nearly ended the relationship?

967
00:56:19,324 --> 00:56:20,890
How nearly brave of you
that must have been.

968
00:56:20,891 --> 00:56:22,159
- Come on, come on.

969
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:23,605
- No, no, no, that means a lot to me.

970
00:56:23,606 --> 00:56:25,879
I mean, you know that was the only reason

971
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:26,765
I came back from Germany.

972
00:56:26,766 --> 00:56:28,888
You knew how much it meant to
me, how much I needed that.

973
00:56:28,889 --> 00:56:30,206
- At least it brought you home.

974
00:56:30,207 --> 00:56:31,723
- I didn't want to come home.

975
00:56:31,724 --> 00:56:34,004
- Jerry, I'm sorry, there's
nothing I can do, all right?

976
00:56:34,005 --> 00:56:36,002
I went to war with these guys over this.

977
00:56:36,003 --> 00:56:37,359
- War?

978
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:38,599
War?

979
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:39,679
War, you went to war with these guys?

980
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:40,520
- Oh, I'm sorry, no.

981
00:56:40,521 --> 00:56:41,360
That was a bad choice of words.

982
00:56:41,361 --> 00:56:42,200
- You went to war?

983
00:56:42,201 --> 00:56:43,040
- I didn't mean...

984
00:56:43,041 --> 00:56:43,880
- I landed on D-Day.

985
00:56:43,881 --> 00:56:44,720
- I understand...

986
00:56:44,721 --> 00:56:45,526
- No, no, no, no, no.

987
00:56:45,527 --> 00:56:46,442
You have no idea.

988
00:56:46,443 --> 00:56:49,239
I'm only alive because we missed
our landing by 1,000 yards.

989
00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:50,366
But I saw them all get killed.

990
00:56:50,367 --> 00:56:52,639
I saw every single one of them get killed.

991
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:53,924
I should be dead too, I shouldn't be here.

992
00:56:53,925 --> 00:56:54,726
- Jerry, I'm sorry.

993
00:56:54,727 --> 00:56:55,765
I fought for you.
- No, no, no, no, no.

994
00:56:55,766 --> 00:56:56,600
- I wanted this to happen.

995
00:56:56,601 --> 00:56:58,125
- Don't sit there and tell
me how you fought for this.

996
00:56:58,126 --> 00:57:00,168
You are a liar, you're a goddam liar.

997
00:57:00,169 --> 00:57:02,970
And I never want to see you again.

998
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:07,880
- Jerry.

999
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:25,767
- Hey mister.

1000
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,208
I have a question for you.

1001
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:31,931
Where do you think the
ducks go in the winter

1002
00:57:31,932 --> 00:57:34,127
when the pond freezes over?

1003
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,769
- I'm sorry, pal, I ain't got no idea.

1004
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,009
Hey, you want a smoke?

1005
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,839
- Yeah, thank you.

1006
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,763
Hey, you wanna, you want a nip?

1007
00:57:49,764 --> 00:57:51,759
- Ooh, don't mind if I do.

1008
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,171
- Have you got a light?

1009
00:57:53,172 --> 00:57:54,479
- I think I do.

1010
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,439
Hey, hey, I'm a veteran.

1011
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:02,680
I'm a veteran, goddam it, stop.

1012
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:08,762
- All right, got it.

1013
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,648
- What are you all doing?

1014
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:38,239
I keep having nightmares about
the war almost every night.

1015
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,720
Sometimes I wake up screaming.

1016
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,930
- Do you also see it during the day?

1017
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:50,879
- How'd you know?

1018
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,882
- Before I studied the
teachings of Ramakrishna

1019
00:59:52,883 --> 00:59:56,639
I was a freedom fighter in
India against the British.

1020
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:57,971
It was the violence I witnessed

1021
00:59:57,972 --> 01:00:02,839
that led me on the same
path that has led you to me.

1022
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,319
- Do you think the
nightmares will ever go away?

1023
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:06,320
- Oh yes.

1024
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,170
But first you must heal from the violence

1025
01:00:09,171 --> 01:00:12,439
that has been inflicted upon your soul.

1026
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:13,440
- How?

1027
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:15,720
- Right.

1028
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,404
Our religion consists of meditation

1029
01:00:19,405 --> 01:00:22,239
on the spirit of full consciousness.

1030
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:23,319
Come.

1031
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:24,810
Remove your shoes.

1032
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,881
This is how we will
begin to heal the pain.

1033
01:00:28,882 --> 01:00:31,439
Those are very handsome shoes.

1034
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,039
- Thank you.

1035
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:34,040
- Come, sit.

1036
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:39,239
Very good.

1037
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:40,844
Now close your eyes.

1038
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:45,399
It's all right.

1039
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,519
I won't hurt you.

1040
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,159
Ultimate reality is an all-pervading

1041
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,369
uncreated self-luminous eternal spirit.

1042
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,970
It's the consciousness that
animates all conscious beings.

1043
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,281
- I, well I try to write.

1044
01:01:34,282 --> 01:01:37,409
Every day I sit at the
typewriter but I can't start.

1045
01:01:37,410 --> 01:01:42,279
- What do you think about when
you stare at the blank page?

1046
01:01:43,123 --> 01:01:44,799
- That it won't be good.

1047
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:46,759
That I've lost my talent.

1048
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,047
- So what if you have?

1049
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:53,123
- Then I shouldn't write.

1050
01:01:53,124 --> 01:01:54,884
- You write to show off your talent

1051
01:01:54,885 --> 01:01:57,770
or to express what's in your heart?

1052
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:09,959
- I finally started yesterday.

1053
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:10,768
- Good.

1054
01:02:10,769 --> 01:02:11,959
- No, it wasn't good.

1055
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:12,768
I mean, the writing was terrible

1056
01:02:12,769 --> 01:02:15,081
and I only managed one page.

1057
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:18,729
- Then what happened?

1058
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,399
Did you enjoy it?

1059
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:26,242
- Writing?

1060
01:02:26,243 --> 01:02:28,322
- No, ripping up the page.

1061
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:31,719
- Yeah.

1062
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,091
I ripped up five pages yesterday.

1063
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:49,319
- Sounds like fun.

1064
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:26,967
- Seymour Glass.

1065
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:32,319
"Are you going in the water,
Seymour Glass?" she said.

1066
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:33,401
He suddenly got to his feet.

1067
01:03:33,402 --> 01:03:35,719
He looked at the ocean.

1068
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:37,085
"I'll tell you what we'll do.

1069
01:03:37,086 --> 01:03:40,368
"We'll see if we can catch a bananafish.

1070
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,603
"This is a perfect day for bananafish."

1071
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:02,291
- Well, I love what you've
done with the place.

1072
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:06,479
You're writing again.

1073
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:07,480
- Mm-hm.

1074
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,119
- The Caulfield novel?

1075
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:12,639
- No, no.

1076
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:14,479
I tried but...

1077
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:15,322
- Thank you.

1078
01:04:15,323 --> 01:04:18,005
- It's just some short
stories I've been working on.

1079
01:04:18,006 --> 01:04:19,359
- Mm.

1080
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:20,200
- They're not very good,

1081
01:04:20,201 --> 01:04:21,281
but at least I'm getting pages clone.

1082
01:04:21,282 --> 01:04:23,119
- Well, that's why I'm here.

1083
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:23,962
You remember that story

1084
01:04:23,963 --> 01:04:25,924
that the New Yorker was going to publish?

1085
01:04:25,925 --> 01:04:29,079
- Slight Rebellion Off Madison,
my first Caulfield story.

1086
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:29,922
- Well, they've been reviewing

1087
01:04:29,923 --> 01:04:31,843
all their past submissions
from before the war

1088
01:04:31,844 --> 01:04:34,446
and they are considering publishing it.

1089
01:04:34,447 --> 01:04:35,799
- Really?

1090
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:36,926
- Yes, really.

1091
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:39,082
I don't know if you remember,

1092
01:04:39,083 --> 01:04:43,839
but they had specific notes
you didn't want to take.

1093
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,081
And if you want them to publish it

1094
01:04:46,082 --> 01:04:49,641
you're going to have
to make their changes.

1095
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,399
Oh come on, at least hear them out.

1096
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:56,448
Publishing is everything.

1097
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:00,566
- Well the New Yorker
holds a special place

1098
01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:02,359
in American literature.

1099
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,089
And it's important to us that our stories

1100
01:05:04,090 --> 01:05:06,199
have a uniform vision.

1101
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:08,324
We want the reader to
be able to read a story

1102
01:05:08,325 --> 01:05:11,721
and know that it could
only run in the New Yorker.

1103
01:05:11,722 --> 01:05:13,881
- That's exactly what I don't want.

1104
01:05:13,882 --> 01:05:17,089
- You don't want to be
published in the New Yorker?

1105
01:05:17,090 --> 01:05:19,639
- No, no, I love the New Yorker.

1106
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,644
I just don't want to write
stories like everyone else.

1107
01:05:22,645 --> 01:05:26,679
You know, the war hero
doesn't always get a parade.

1108
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:29,319
Sometimes he blows his head off.

1109
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:31,799
I want to create a new form of writing,

1110
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:34,599
a modern form about modern society

1111
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:36,602
in which is the pain of our existence

1112
01:05:36,603 --> 01:05:40,161
is laid out truthfully
for everyone to see.

1113
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:45,803
- I'll make a deal with you.

1114
01:05:45,804 --> 01:05:48,243
If you try the notes
and don't feel they make

1115
01:05:48,244 --> 01:05:51,923
your story better, then I'll
submit your original version.

1116
01:05:51,924 --> 01:05:54,559
- I don't want Holden and
Sally to end up together.

1117
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:55,844
That's not what happens in real life,

1118
01:05:55,845 --> 01:05:56,807
at least not in my life.

1119
01:05:56,808 --> 01:05:57,923
- Well that's fine.

1120
01:05:57,924 --> 01:05:59,599
It's just a thought we had.

1121
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:01,523
- I thought it was a big
sticking point for you.

1122
01:06:01,524 --> 01:06:04,599
- Not if you feel it destroys
the integrity of the piece.

1123
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:06,443
Look, Jerry, I'm not trying
to take your story over

1124
01:06:06,444 --> 01:06:08,044
or write it for you.

1125
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:12,879
You have a wonderful voice
but you over-explain.

1126
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:17,439
Trust that the reader's
going to understand you.

1127
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,359
- What do you mean I over-explain?

1128
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:38,326
That's better.

1129
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:42,879
Your notes worked.

1130
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:43,802
Thanks.

1131
01:06:43,803 --> 01:06:45,719
- You're welcome.

1132
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,007
I'll submit it to Harold
Ross and the team.

1133
01:06:48,008 --> 01:06:51,641
It should take a few
weeks to get an answer.

1134
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:58,441
- I wanted to give you
another story I wrote.

1135
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,519
I thought you could
help me make it better.

1136
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,359
- Well shouldn't bananafish be two words?

1137
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:07,919
- No, it has to be one.

1138
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:09,079
- Why?

1139
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:12,129
- Because two words would
make too much sense.

1140
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:16,767
- Dear Jerry.

1141
01:07:16,768 --> 01:07:20,124
I've sent you several letters
but you never respond.

1142
01:07:20,125 --> 01:07:21,724
I hope you believe me when I tell you

1143
01:07:21,725 --> 01:07:23,679
there was nothing I could do.

1144
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:26,331
I begged them to publish it, I really did.

1145
01:07:26,332 --> 01:07:29,159
And now I'm begging for your forgiveness.

1146
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,571
Because I truly...

1147
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,371
- I've read several of your stories

1148
01:07:34,372 --> 01:07:38,410
and they're very impressive
for someone your age.

1149
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,246
- My writing changed a lot after the war.

1150
01:07:43,247 --> 01:07:45,561
- The war changed a lot of writers.

1151
01:07:45,562 --> 01:07:47,608
- The ones that survived.

1152
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,159
- Jerry, I brought you here today

1153
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:52,844
because I wanted to tell you personally

1154
01:07:52,845 --> 01:07:56,606
that the New Yorker would
like to publish you.

1155
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:01,846
- Which story?

1156
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:05,686
- All of them.

1157
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:09,321
- All of them?

1158
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:12,927
- I would like to offer you
a first rejection contract.

1159
01:08:12,928 --> 01:08:14,490
We'll pay you a handsome yearly salary.

1160
01:08:14,491 --> 01:08:18,399
And in return we get to read
all of your stories first.

1161
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,082
The ones we don't publish,

1162
01:08:20,083 --> 01:08:22,401
you're free to sell to other magazines.

1163
01:08:22,402 --> 01:08:26,450
- It's the most prestigious
contract in American publishing.

1164
01:08:26,451 --> 01:08:29,444
- Congratulations, Jerry, you did it.

1165
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:35,685
♪ Jing jing a ling jing a ling jing a ling

1166
01:08:35,686 --> 01:08:37,159
♪ I love to hear our laughter mingle

1167
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:38,082
♪ Hah hah

1168
01:08:38,083 --> 01:08:39,119
♪ Ho ho

1169
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:40,643
♪ Gliding through the snow

1170
01:08:40,644 --> 01:08:42,324
- May I present Jerry Salinger.

1171
01:08:42,325 --> 01:08:43,679
Peggy Sisken.

1172
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:44,520
- Very nice to meet you.

1173
01:08:44,521 --> 01:08:46,839
- The New Yorker's incipient
great man of American letter.

1174
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:47,682
- Jerry, if I may.

1175
01:08:47,683 --> 01:08:48,839
I am also a writer.

1176
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:49,682
- Fantastic.

1177
01:08:49,683 --> 01:08:52,363
- I thought Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut was marvelous.

1178
01:08:52,364 --> 01:08:54,601
I'm simply dying for your next story.

1179
01:08:54,602 --> 01:08:56,601
- When Seymour Glass shot himself,

1180
01:08:56,602 --> 01:08:58,325
you weren't just talking about the war.

1181
01:08:58,326 --> 01:08:59,922
You were talking about the bourgeois

1182
01:08:59,923 --> 01:09:02,486
capitalist infrastructure
of a modern plutocracy.

1183
01:09:02,487 --> 01:09:04,039
- Or maybe it was the war.

1184
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:05,279
But it's really up to the reader.

1185
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:08,439
- Jerry is in the very
beginnings of his first novel.

1186
01:09:08,440 --> 01:09:10,122
- And Bill says you
may be writing a novel.

1187
01:09:10,123 --> 01:09:11,085
- When are you going to write a novel?

1188
01:09:11,086 --> 01:09:12,921
- Well, you know, there's
something I'm working on.

1189
01:09:12,922 --> 01:09:13,840
Hopefully it won't be too long.

1190
01:09:13,841 --> 01:09:14,648
- Let's get a picture.

1191
01:09:14,649 --> 01:09:16,359
- Oh, thank you so much.

1192
01:09:18,480 --> 01:09:20,199
- Shall we have a picture?

1193
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:21,200
Here we are.

1194
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:29,730
♪ Jing a ling jing a ling

1195
01:09:29,731 --> 01:09:33,159
♪ Jing a ling jing a ling jing a ling

1196
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:52,451
- There's one thing that's
been weighing on me.

1197
01:09:52,452 --> 01:09:56,679
A novel I'm trying, wanting
to finish but can't.

1198
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,809
I'm scared if I work on it
the nightmares will come back.

1199
01:09:59,810 --> 01:10:01,279
- Is it about the war?

1200
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,681
- No, it's about a character
I wrote about during the war.

1201
01:10:03,682 --> 01:10:06,119
He was with me everywhere I went.

1202
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:07,690
- Every time you attempt to work on it

1203
01:10:07,691 --> 01:10:09,523
you feel the war again.

1204
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:13,321
- You know, you never really get the smell

1205
01:10:13,322 --> 01:10:16,959
of burning flesh out of your nostrils.

1206
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:21,124
- Perhaps finishing this book
is the way for you to move on.

1207
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:23,240
- Right.

1208
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:28,126
There's just so many
distractions everywhere.

1209
01:10:28,127 --> 01:10:30,759
- Then you must remove distractions.

1210
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:56,205
- Well, this is it.

1211
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:02,891
It gets a little drafty
but the price is right.

1212
01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:07,568
What are you going to do up here?

1213
01:11:07,569 --> 01:11:09,847
- Oh, just a little writing.

1214
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,089
- I'll just tell
you about this madman stuff

1215
01:12:05,090 --> 01:12:07,161
that happened to me around last Christmas.

1216
01:12:08,162 --> 01:12:10,970
Just before I got pretty run down.

1217
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:15,481
Finally what I decided I'd
do, I decided I'd go away.

1218
01:12:15,482 --> 01:12:17,125
I decided I'd never go home again.

1219
01:12:17,126 --> 01:12:18,999
I'd never go away to another school again.

1220
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:20,081
That way I wouldn't have to have

1221
01:12:20,082 --> 01:12:24,244
any goddam stupid unless
conversations with anybody.

1222
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:30,444
I keep picturing all these little kids

1223
01:12:30,445 --> 01:12:34,239
playing some game in this
big field of rye and all.

1224
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:36,527
Thousands of little kids,
and nobody's around.

1225
01:12:36,528 --> 01:12:38,921
Nobody big I mean, except me.

1226
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:44,045
And I'm standing on the
edge of some crazy cliff.

1227
01:12:44,046 --> 01:12:46,202
What I have to do, I
have to catch everybody

1228
01:12:46,203 --> 01:12:48,919
if they start to go over the cliff.

1229
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:50,445
I mean if they're running
and they don't look

1230
01:12:50,446 --> 01:12:52,329
where they're going, I have to come out

1231
01:12:52,330 --> 01:12:54,800
from somewhere and catch them.

1232
01:12:56,440 --> 01:12:59,399
And that's all I'd do all day.

1233
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:02,927
I'd just be the catcher
in the rye and all.

1234
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:08,966
I know it's crazy, but
that's the only thing

1235
01:13:08,967 --> 01:13:10,769
I'd really like to be.

1236
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:14,519
- Jerry.

1237
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:15,362
- Hi,

1238
01:13:15,363 --> 01:13:16,673
- Thanks so much for stopping by.

1239
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:17,520
- Oh, thank you.

1240
01:13:17,521 --> 01:13:18,440
- It's great to meet you.

1241
01:13:18,441 --> 01:13:19,519
- Mr. Giroux, it's a pleasure.

1242
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:20,326
- Robert.

1243
01:13:20,327 --> 01:13:21,160
Please, call me Robert.

1244
01:13:21,161 --> 01:13:22,000
- Robert.
- Have a seat.

1245
01:13:22,001 --> 01:13:22,840
- Thank you.

1246
01:13:22,841 --> 01:13:24,046
- Such an honor to have you here.

1247
01:13:24,047 --> 01:13:26,324
- No, I'm sorry for
stopping by unannounced.

1248
01:13:26,325 --> 01:13:28,288
I just wanted to speak to you personally.

1249
01:13:28,289 --> 01:13:30,039
- No apologies necessary.

1250
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:32,399
- I don't know if you
remember, but a year ago

1251
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,209
you sent me the kindest
letter about my writing

1252
01:13:34,210 --> 01:13:36,521
asking if you could publish
a book of my short stories.

1253
01:13:36,522 --> 01:13:39,719
- Of course, I love those stories.

1254
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:40,959
- Thank you.

1255
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:42,962
I just completed my first novel

1256
01:13:42,963 --> 01:13:46,601
and if you like, I'd
like you to publish it.

1257
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:55,079
- Ah, I am honored you'd think of me.

1258
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,605
When can I read it?

1259
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:06,360
- Hm.

1260
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,931
You know, the pages of
this book were with me

1261
01:14:10,932 --> 01:14:14,599
when I stormed the beaches of Normandy.

1262
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,046
I wrote them in Hitler's death
camps and in the hospital

1263
01:14:17,047 --> 01:14:20,522
where I could barely remember my own name.

1264
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:27,204
I don't think I'd be alive
if it wasn't for this book.

1265
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,966
- I'm really flattered, Jerry.

1266
01:14:37,480 --> 01:14:38,970
Is it a war story?

1267
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:41,959
- No.

1268
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:46,090
It's about a troubled kid
during the Christmas holidays.

1269
01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:50,644
- Well I know you wanted us to give you

1270
01:14:50,645 --> 01:14:52,205
some helpful notes on the novel.

1271
01:14:52,206 --> 01:14:55,807
But the truth is, we both
think it has a lot of problems.

1272
01:14:55,808 --> 01:14:57,928
- I just don't buy Holden.

1273
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:01,039
- That's the whole book.

1274
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:04,639
- Well he seems phony,
as he would like to say.

1275
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:05,721
He's so negative all the time.

1276
01:15:05,722 --> 01:15:07,402
It just doesn't feel real.

1277
01:15:07,403 --> 01:15:09,209
- And your style is too writer-conscious.

1278
01:15:09,210 --> 01:15:13,319
I feel you're trying to be
clever on almost every page.

1279
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,129
- Did you at least think it was funny?

1280
01:15:15,130 --> 01:15:16,919
- Um.

1281
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:18,524
- Yes, but in a way where I feel

1282
01:15:18,525 --> 01:15:20,519
the writer's being too witty.

1283
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,559
- You're making a real name for yourself

1284
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:23,607
and I would hate for this book

1285
01:15:23,608 --> 01:15:25,999
to throw all that goodwill away.

1286
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:27,047
The best note I can give ya

1287
01:15:27,048 --> 01:15:31,011
is to just put it in a
drawer for a year or two.

1288
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:32,999
- It's that bad?

1289
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:34,525
- I'm afraid it is.

1290
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,850
- I loved it, Jerry, I really did.

1291
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,359
- Thank God.

1292
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:57,170
- But these things are never easy.

1293
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:01,239
- What do you mean?

1294
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,559
- My boss didn't get it.

1295
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:08,479
But I fought for it and he
said he'd be willing to publish

1296
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:10,721
if you did a major rewrite.

1297
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,199
- What does he want rewritten?

1298
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:18,839
- He doesn't understand
Holden, what makes him tick.

1299
01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:22,879
And I gotta admit, I found
him confusing at times.

1300
01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:24,530
He hates everything.

1301
01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:27,967
And he's always so sarcastic.

1302
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:32,886
Is Holden supposed to be crazy?

1303
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:45,519
Are you okay?

1304
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:46,520
Jerry?

1305
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:49,400
Jerry?

1306
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:53,046
- No, I've thought about it
and I can't do a rewrite.

1307
01:16:53,047 --> 01:16:54,405
I won't do it, I'm not
going to change a word.

1308
01:16:54,406 --> 01:16:55,806
Holden would never approve.

1309
01:16:55,807 --> 01:16:57,484
- You might not have to.

1310
01:16:57,485 --> 01:16:58,799
- What do you mean?

1311
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:00,325
- Look, I didn't tell you
I was going to do this.

1312
01:17:00,326 --> 01:17:03,319
But I sent it to one person,
just to test the waters.

1313
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:04,287
- Who?

1314
01:17:04,288 --> 01:17:06,959
- John Woodburn at Little, Brown.

1315
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:08,564
- Okay, well how was the water?

1316
01:17:08,565 --> 01:17:09,846
- Hot, very hot.

1317
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:12,446
- He liked it?

1318
01:17:12,447 --> 01:17:13,759
- No, he loved it.

1319
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:15,569
He thinks it's an American masterpiece.

1320
01:17:15,570 --> 01:17:17,319
- He said masterpiece?

1321
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:18,599
- That's what he said.

1322
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:19,442
- Yeah.

1323
01:17:19,443 --> 01:17:24,039
And wait, you told him I
wouldn't make any changes?

1324
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:26,279
- Yes, I told him that
that could be a problem,

1325
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:27,486
and he still wants to meet with you

1326
01:17:27,487 --> 01:17:29,562
to discuss marketing and distribution.

1327
01:17:29,563 --> 01:17:31,559
- Hold on, marketing?

1328
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:33,562
- We also love this one for the cover,

1329
01:17:33,563 --> 01:17:36,040
Holden in his red hunting hat.

1330
01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:38,080
- I hate it.

1331
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:42,239
- So what's wrong with this one?

1332
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:44,004
- The reader needs to
imagine for themselves

1333
01:17:44,005 --> 01:17:46,959
what they want Holden to look like.

1334
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:48,847
- What if we just
use it for the galleys?

1335
01:17:48,848 --> 01:17:49,682
I think it would really...

1336
01:17:49,683 --> 01:17:50,999
- Mm-mm, no.

1337
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:53,001
I don't want any galleys sent out.

1338
01:17:53,002 --> 01:17:56,083
- Advanced copies are crucial
for publicity purposes.

1339
01:17:56,084 --> 01:17:58,159
- I don't want any publicity.

1340
01:17:58,160 --> 01:17:59,969
- You don't want any publicity?

1341
01:17:59,970 --> 01:18:01,319
- No.

1342
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,084
I don't care if it's successful.

1343
01:18:03,085 --> 01:18:05,279
I just want it to be good.

1344
01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:06,361
The less attention the book gets,

1345
01:18:06,362 --> 01:18:08,806
the more the story will affect people.

1346
01:18:08,807 --> 01:18:12,799
- It won't affect anyone
if they don't read it.

1347
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:13,847
- Well I'm not doing press.

1348
01:18:13,848 --> 01:18:17,447
This isn't about me or
publicity or reviews.

1349
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:20,524
This is about Holden.

1350
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:26,999
- Jerry, do you want
us to publish this book

1351
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:28,759
or merely to print it?

1352
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:30,522
Because if you just want a printer,

1353
01:18:30,523 --> 01:18:32,807
then I suggest you type
up a few hundred copies

1354
01:18:32,808 --> 01:18:35,007
and send them out yourself.

1355
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:41,522
- Fine, you can send out
galleys for advance reviews.

1356
01:18:41,523 --> 01:18:43,199
- Thank you, Jerry.

1357
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:45,487
That's very generous of you.

1358
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:49,529
- But I don't want to
read a single review.

1359
01:18:49,530 --> 01:18:51,639
So don't send them to me, okay?

1360
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:56,451
- Receiving rapturous reviews,

1361
01:18:56,452 --> 01:18:59,683
the debut novel of J.D.
Salinger is being heralded

1362
01:18:59,684 --> 01:19:01,884
as the breakout book of the year.

1363
01:19:01,885 --> 01:19:05,839
♪ If a body meet a body

1364
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:09,599
♪ Coming through the rye

1365
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:13,599
♪ If a body kiss a body

1366
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:17,159
♪ Need a body cry

1367
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:21,679
♪ Every lassie has a laddie

1368
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:24,919
♪ None they say have I

1369
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:29,279
♪ And all the lads they smile at me

1370
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:33,080
♪ When coming through the rye

1371
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:47,450
♪ And all the lads they smile at me

1372
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:55,680
♪ When coming through the rye

1373
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,248
- And do you feel peace?

1374
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:25,408
- Excuse me, Mr. Salinger.

1375
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:28,280
Excuse me.

1376
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,811
Um, I just wanted to talk to you.

1377
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,451
I feel like I'm Holden Caulfield.

1378
01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:47,571
And I jump, I need to talk to you

1379
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:52,727
about the book, about Holden.

1380
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:58,251
- Everything I have to
say I wrote in the book.

1381
01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,330
- How do you know so much about me?

1382
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:06,680
- I don't.

1383
01:21:08,680 --> 01:21:10,967
It's just a work of fiction.

1384
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:14,768
I'm just a fiction writer.

1385
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:22,599
Thank you for saying hello.

1386
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:23,965
- But I'm Holden.

1387
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:28,129
I'm Holden Caulfield.

1388
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:34,765
You're phony, like everyone else.

1389
01:21:43,480 --> 01:21:46,039
- Sorry, I didn't want to wake you.

1390
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:48,088
- No, no, no, you didn't.

1391
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:53,091
I was always worried you wouldn't
be able to pay your rent.

1392
01:21:53,092 --> 01:21:57,165
Now I gotta worry about
deranged fans attacking you.

1393
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:04,239
You should take your photo
off all those book covers.

1394
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:07,359
- I never knew you worried at all.

1395
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:09,806
- Since the day you were born.

1396
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:17,287
When I was a boy I wanted to be a pianist.

1397
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:21,728
I loved playing so much.

1398
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:26,601
But my father was a rabbi so
he just couldn't understand

1399
01:22:26,602 --> 01:22:29,799
how I would be able to support myself,

1400
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,485
and he forced me to stop playing.

1401
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:37,639
I was upset.

1402
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:39,529
But I knew he loved me.

1403
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:42,767
He just wanted me to be okay.

1404
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:50,399
- I never even heard you play.

1405
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:52,129
- No, but I was good.

1406
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:01,770
So, you're Holden Caulfield, right?

1407
01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:09,160
- Yeah.

1408
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:15,039
- Your mother was right.

1409
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:16,849
You are very talented.

1410
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:22,400
- Thank you.

1411
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:30,559
- Now you just got to write
another one even better.

1412
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:31,560
No pressure.

1413
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:35,805
Good night, sonny.

1414
01:23:50,480 --> 01:23:53,802
- I hear people talking about
Catcher everywhere I go.

1415
01:23:53,803 --> 01:23:55,879
Everyone just loves it.

1416
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:59,719
- I'm so excited
to read your next book.

1417
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:01,719
- Is your steak okay?

1418
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:03,881
- Yeah, I'm just not very hungry.

1419
01:24:03,882 --> 01:24:05,609
- Could we get you something else maybe?

1420
01:24:05,610 --> 01:24:06,886
- No, excuse me.

1421
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:26,519
- You okay?

1422
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:27,931
- Yeah, I'm fine.

1423
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,682
- You know, there's a dinner
party going on in there.

1424
01:24:33,683 --> 01:24:37,810
- Yeah, I'm just a little
uncomfortable right now.

1425
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:40,810
- It's just a book.

1426
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:42,962
I didn't even like it that much,

1427
01:24:42,963 --> 01:24:45,440
if you want to know the truth.

1428
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:51,531
- What didn't you like about it?

1429
01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:55,764
- It was just like all
those other phony books.

1430
01:24:55,765 --> 01:24:59,399
A lot of whining and the
ending was a lousy bore.

1431
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:06,284
You shouldn't take yourself
so seriously, you know.

1432
01:25:06,285 --> 01:25:10,410
It's not like you're the
first guy to write a hit book.

1433
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:13,167
- Wait, wait.

1434
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,007
Can I get your phone number?

1435
01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:26,160
- Got a pen?

1436
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,607
- And I got some paper too.

1437
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:40,599
What's your name?

1438
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:42,090
- Claire.

1439
01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:47,759
You're the first person that's
ever said they hated it.

1440
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:49,000
- To your face.

1441
01:25:50,440 --> 01:25:51,440
- Thank you.

1442
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:11,324
- You have captured the
consciousness of the nation.

1443
01:26:11,325 --> 01:26:12,965
You've tapped into the way many feel,

1444
01:26:12,966 --> 01:26:15,004
and have given a voice to their pain.

1445
01:26:15,005 --> 01:26:16,439
- Well I can't go home anymore.

1446
01:26:16,440 --> 01:26:17,601
I wrote the book to get over the war

1447
01:26:17,602 --> 01:26:21,239
and now I feel like I'm
going crazy all over again.

1448
01:26:21,240 --> 01:26:25,370
- Have you not yet learned
how to remove distraction?

1449
01:26:34,480 --> 01:26:38,119
- New Hampshire's really
beautiful this time of year.

1450
01:26:38,120 --> 01:26:40,719
It's 90 acres, mostly woods.

1451
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:42,879
The house is modest but very nice.

1452
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:43,927
There's also a small bunker

1453
01:26:43,928 --> 01:26:46,959
that can be converted to a guest house.

1454
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:47,999
- Or an office.

1455
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:49,639
- Whatever you want.

1456
01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:52,610
I think you'll be really happy here.

1457
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:54,965
- Well I hope so.

1458
01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:10,244
- An artist's only concern

1459
01:27:10,245 --> 01:27:13,559
is to shoot for some kind of perfection.

1460
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:16,919
And on his own terms, not anyone else's.

1461
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:18,239
- Excuse, Mr. Salinger.

1462
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:19,207
Since you write about teenagers

1463
01:27:19,208 --> 01:27:22,249
I thought you might be interested
in running a youth group.

1464
01:27:22,250 --> 01:27:24,559
I think the kids would love it.

1465
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:25,368
- I would too.

1466
01:27:25,369 --> 01:27:26,519
- Great.

1467
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:28,479
They're right over here.

1468
01:27:28,480 --> 01:27:29,288
- Yet a real artist,

1469
01:27:29,289 --> 01:27:32,250
I've noticed, will survive anything.

1470
01:27:41,080 --> 01:27:42,080
- Jerry?

1471
01:27:45,080 --> 01:27:46,411
You invite me all the way out here

1472
01:27:46,412 --> 01:27:48,607
and then walk away as soon as you see me?

1473
01:27:48,608 --> 01:27:50,039
- No, I'm sorry.

1474
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:52,611
I thought you were one of
those crazed Caulfield fans.

1475
01:27:52,612 --> 01:27:54,479
- You should be so lucky.

1476
01:27:54,480 --> 01:27:56,209
- You look beautiful.

1477
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:00,405
What do you think?

1478
01:28:01,480 --> 01:28:03,641
- It's just as you said in your letters.

1479
01:28:03,642 --> 01:28:06,007
It's like the city without the city.

1480
01:28:06,008 --> 01:28:07,239
- Do you hate it?

1481
01:28:07,240 --> 01:28:10,639
- I grew up in foster homes, Jerry.

1482
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:13,610
As long as you're here it's perfect.

1483
01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:19,761
- Her skin was lovely

1484
01:28:19,762 --> 01:28:22,679
and her features were delicate.

1485
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:23,761
No one could have missed saying

1486
01:28:23,762 --> 01:28:26,570
that she was a first class beauty.

1487
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:31,603
He's overjoyed with
his new spiritual life.

1488
01:28:31,604 --> 01:28:34,888
And he goes on saying his
prayer and telling everyone

1489
01:28:34,889 --> 01:28:38,679
he happens to meet how to say it too.

1490
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:40,919
- Hey, Mr. Salinger.

1491
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:43,161
I know you're very private,
but I was wondering

1492
01:28:43,162 --> 01:28:45,799
if I could interview you
for my school newspaper.

1493
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:47,928
They want me to write an
article about someone I admire.

1494
01:28:47,929 --> 01:28:49,649
And you'd be perfect.

1495
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:55,840
- Well I stopped doing
interviews a while ago.

1496
01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:00,839
But for a school paper I can
certainly make an exception.

1497
01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:01,680
- Really?

1498
01:29:01,681 --> 01:29:02,520
- Of course.

1499
01:29:02,521 --> 01:29:03,487
- The kids at school are going to love it.

1500
01:29:03,488 --> 01:29:05,319
Thank you, thank you.

1501
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:07,891
Is Catcher in the Rye autobiographical?

1502
01:29:07,892 --> 01:29:09,079
- Sort of.

1503
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:10,406
My boyhood was very much the same

1504
01:29:10,407 --> 01:29:12,243
as that of the boy in the book.

1505
01:29:12,244 --> 01:29:16,039
You know, I had problems
in school just like he did.

1506
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:18,930
To be honest, it was a great
relief telling people about it.

1507
01:29:18,931 --> 01:29:23,050
- And why do most of your
stories center on young people?

1508
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,759
- Because they're innocent

1509
01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:34,810
and they haven't been
destroyed by the world yet.

1510
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:38,205
I guess part of me wishes I
could still be that innocent.

1511
01:29:38,206 --> 01:29:39,406
But I've seen the things I've seen

1512
01:29:39,407 --> 01:29:42,768
and I'll never have that innocence again.

1513
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:50,921
- That girl who interviewed you

1514
01:29:50,922 --> 01:29:53,639
the other day was very pretty.

1515
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:55,199
- So?

1516
01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:57,679
- So you seem to like pretty young girls.

1517
01:29:57,680 --> 01:29:59,399
- Yes, that would put me

1518
01:29:59,400 --> 01:30:03,200
in that special
classification known as a man.

1519
01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:09,882
- Well I hope you still love me

1520
01:30:09,883 --> 01:30:12,611
when I'm not a pretty young girl.

1521
01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:17,810
- Of course I will.

1522
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:28,680
No.
- What?

1523
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:33,326
- That interview, the
interview with the girl.

1524
01:30:33,327 --> 01:30:37,279
It was printed in the local
paper, not the school paper.

1525
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:38,319
- So?

1526
01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:39,719
- So she lied to me.

1527
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:41,279
She said it was for the school paper.

1528
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:42,120
She lied.

1529
01:30:42,121 --> 01:30:42,960
- It's okay, Jerry.

1530
01:30:42,961 --> 01:30:43,800
It's going to be okay.

1531
01:30:43,801 --> 01:30:44,640
- No, I trusted her.
- Jerry, it's okay.

1532
01:30:44,641 --> 01:30:45,641
- I trusted her.

1533
01:30:45,642 --> 01:30:47,449
She betrayed me.
- It's okay.

1534
01:30:47,450 --> 01:30:51,679
- How dare those goddam
children betray me now.

1535
01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:01,879
- When people
become the distraction

1536
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:04,929
then I suppose you remove the people.

1537
01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:09,399
- There hasn't be a single mention of me

1538
01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:12,839
or Story Magazine in any of the
press, not a single mention.

1539
01:31:12,840 --> 01:31:13,682
- That's because you have no

1540
01:31:13,683 --> 01:31:15,565
official involvement in the book.

1541
01:31:15,566 --> 01:31:17,403
- But I published his first story.

1542
01:31:17,404 --> 01:31:19,359
I'm the one who convinced him

1543
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:21,679
that Holden Caulfield should be a novel.

1544
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:22,919
- Well, you would have been the publisher

1545
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:24,283
of the hottest novel of the year

1546
01:31:24,284 --> 01:31:26,601
if you'd published his
anthology like you promised him.

1547
01:31:35,480 --> 01:31:38,211
- I haven't slept for six months.

1548
01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:40,560
And I miss him.

1549
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,207
- Well I'm sorry about that.

1550
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:48,845
- Lippincott says that they'll publish

1551
01:31:48,846 --> 01:31:50,808
an anthology now, anything he wants.

1552
01:31:50,809 --> 01:31:52,959
- Everyone wants an anthology.

1553
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:55,244
But we're going with Little,
Brown out of loyalty,

1554
01:31:55,245 --> 01:31:56,924
although I hate the title.

1555
01:31:56,925 --> 01:31:59,491
Nine Stories, it's such a bore.

1556
01:32:01,600 --> 01:32:05,319
- Do you think Jerry would
write a piece for Story?

1557
01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:06,606
It doesn't have to be a new piece.

1558
01:32:06,607 --> 01:32:09,319
It could be an old story, it's fine.

1559
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:11,519
We're just really struggling.

1560
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:13,329
- I already asked him.

1561
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:15,560
He said no.

1562
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:24,922
- How can he still be angry with me?

1563
01:32:24,923 --> 01:32:26,959
He's a huge success now.

1564
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,159
- It hasn't been easy on him.

1565
01:32:29,160 --> 01:32:30,399
The war made him a better writer

1566
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:32,687
but it really messed him up.

1567
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:40,845
- It seems
to me indisputably true

1568
01:32:40,846 --> 01:32:43,241
that artists and poets
who have a reputation

1569
01:32:43,242 --> 01:32:45,479
for producing a great or fine art

1570
01:32:45,480 --> 01:32:48,919
have something garishly
wrong with them as persons,

1571
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:50,046
a spectacular flaw in character

1572
01:32:50,047 --> 01:32:52,919
or an extreme self-centeredness.

1573
01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:55,082
And the public's thirst for
their next supposed masterpiece

1574
01:32:55,083 --> 01:32:59,210
only makes them want to hide
from distractions even more.

1575
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:09,719
- You've been in that studio
for over a week, Jerry.

1576
01:33:09,720 --> 01:33:12,963
All week writing about the Glass family.

1577
01:33:14,720 --> 01:33:16,085
We're alone here, Jerry.

1578
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:19,322
You can't just leave us along like this.

1579
01:33:19,323 --> 01:33:21,129
We're your family too.

1580
01:33:25,440 --> 01:33:28,330
I have no friends here,
I have no one to talk to.

1581
01:33:28,331 --> 01:33:29,526
I am all alone.

1582
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:33,600
I'm alone.

1583
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:45,603
- He's absolutely
unfit for marriage

1584
01:33:45,604 --> 01:33:47,807
or anything halfway normal.

1585
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:50,802
It's a sad fact that the end of one story

1586
01:33:50,803 --> 01:33:53,879
always seems to grow into
the start of a new one.

1587
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:54,927
And the tragedy is there's simply

1588
01:33:54,928 --> 01:33:57,559
nothing he can do about it.

1589
01:33:57,560 --> 01:34:01,201
- Please, you know you're not
supposed to bother me in here.

1590
01:34:01,202 --> 01:34:02,799
- I know.

1591
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:06,043
But you have a phone call
and he says it's important.

1592
01:34:06,044 --> 01:34:07,079
- Why?

1593
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:07,922
Who is it?

1594
01:34:07,923 --> 01:34:09,126
- Whit Burnett.

1595
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:17,249
- No, no, I don't want to talk to him.

1596
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:27,759
- You'd think with all that meditation

1597
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:30,809
you'd have learned to forgive by now.

1598
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:48,928
- Hello.

1599
01:34:48,929 --> 01:34:50,879
- Jerry, hi.

1600
01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:53,239
It's been a long time.

1601
01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:54,287
- Yes it has.

1602
01:34:56,480 --> 01:34:58,050
- I never got a chance to tell you

1603
01:34:58,051 --> 01:35:00,964
but I just loved Catcher in the Rye.

1604
01:35:02,440 --> 01:35:03,280
- Thank you.

1605
01:35:03,281 --> 01:35:04,441
It was your idea to write it.

1606
01:35:04,442 --> 01:35:06,999
- Well, it's one thing to have an idea.

1607
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:08,126
It's another thing to execute it,

1608
01:35:08,127 --> 01:35:10,327
and you did so brilliantly.

1609
01:35:11,440 --> 01:35:12,479
- Thank you.

1610
01:35:12,480 --> 01:35:13,843
- How's life in the country?

1611
01:35:13,844 --> 01:35:14,725
I understand...

1612
01:35:14,726 --> 01:35:15,642
- It's fine, Whit.

1613
01:35:15,643 --> 01:35:17,449
What can I do for you?

1614
01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:23,847
- Are you still angry about what happened?

1615
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:26,411
- Is that why you called?

1616
01:35:26,412 --> 01:35:30,799
- No, no, I called because,
look, Story Magazine

1617
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:32,959
is going to do an
anthology of short stories.

1618
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:34,450
And since you're our most famous alumni

1619
01:35:34,451 --> 01:35:36,919
I just thought it would be fitting

1620
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:39,810
if you did the introduction for us.

1621
01:35:48,240 --> 01:35:49,240
Hello.

1622
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:51,160
- Okay.

1623
01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:52,762
- Okay, what?

1624
01:35:52,763 --> 01:35:54,679
- Okay, I'll do it.

1625
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:55,680
- Really?

1626
01:35:56,720 --> 01:35:58,085
- Yeah, you sound surprised.

1627
01:35:58,086 --> 01:36:00,039
- No, no, I'm just thrilled.

1628
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:01,371
I, I, thank you.

1629
01:36:03,480 --> 01:36:06,927
- No, thank you for buying my first story.

1630
01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:12,159
- Well it was the best $25 I ever spent.

1631
01:36:16,480 --> 01:36:18,881
- When I was 20
I was a student for a time

1632
01:36:18,882 --> 01:36:21,925
in Whit Burnett's short
story course up at Columbia.

1633
01:36:21,926 --> 01:36:23,645
I often have my doubts whether any good

1634
01:36:23,646 --> 01:36:25,642
and conscientious writing course conductor

1635
01:36:25,643 --> 01:36:27,639
can humanly do more.

1636
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:31,770
He was there unmistakably
in the service of the story.

1637
01:36:34,440 --> 01:36:37,359
- It isn't too quiet for you out here?

1638
01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:39,119
- No, it's perfect.

1639
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:41,168
- But don't you miss
the action in the city?

1640
01:36:41,169 --> 01:36:43,119
- It's just a distraction.

1641
01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:44,359
It's all a distraction.

1642
01:36:44,360 --> 01:36:46,124
It's important I remove anything

1643
01:36:46,125 --> 01:36:48,839
that can interfere with my writing.

1644
01:36:48,840 --> 01:36:50,283
All I want now is to write.

1645
01:36:50,284 --> 01:36:52,203
- Yeah, but don't you
have less to write about?

1646
01:36:52,204 --> 01:36:53,799
You're so isolated.

1647
01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:55,450
I mean, look, I liked Franny and Zooey.

1648
01:36:55,451 --> 01:36:57,839
It's just it felt a little bit more

1649
01:36:57,840 --> 01:37:02,119
like reading a religious
textbook than a story.

1650
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:06,199
- You always told me
to dig deeper, correct?

1651
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:07,042
- Yes.

1652
01:37:07,043 --> 01:37:09,399
- I couldn't have written
Catcher without the war.

1653
01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:10,731
But now I'm seeking a higher calling

1654
01:37:10,732 --> 01:37:12,399
than a boy in his hunting hat.

1655
01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:13,242
- Wait a minute.

1656
01:37:13,243 --> 01:37:14,679
Holden changed the country.

1657
01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:15,919
There's now young people
all over the world

1658
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,491
who feel they finally have a
voice they never had before.

1659
01:37:18,492 --> 01:37:22,799
- Yes, and they're not afraid
to come here and tell me.

1660
01:37:22,800 --> 01:37:25,479
Sometimes I wish I never wrote it.

1661
01:37:25,480 --> 01:37:26,766
I do, it's made me a prisoner here.

1662
01:37:26,767 --> 01:37:28,119
I'm shackled by my own creation.

1663
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:29,406
- Oh come on, does it
have to be like that?

1664
01:37:29,407 --> 01:37:30,439
- Yes.

1665
01:37:30,440 --> 01:37:31,771
If I want to keep writing, it does.

1666
01:37:31,772 --> 01:37:36,359
And that's the only time
I feel any sense of peace.

1667
01:37:36,360 --> 01:37:39,842
It's nice to see you again but I'm curious

1668
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:44,759
why you wanted to come all
the way up here to talk to me.

1669
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:47,331
- It's about the introduction you wrote.

1670
01:37:47,332 --> 01:37:50,239
Look, I loved it, it's beautiful.

1671
01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:51,239
I was very flattered.

1672
01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:52,127
- Well I'm glad you enjoyed it.

1673
01:37:52,128 --> 01:37:55,010
- But unfortunately I can't use it.

1674
01:37:56,480 --> 01:37:57,839
- You can't use it?

1675
01:37:57,840 --> 01:38:00,684
- No, because it's not
about Story Magazine

1676
01:38:00,685 --> 01:38:02,119
or the other writers.

1677
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:04,599
It's about me and it's just inappropriate

1678
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:06,639
to use as an introduction
for an anthology.

1679
01:38:07,483 --> 01:38:09,209
Why are you laughing?

1680
01:38:10,680 --> 01:38:13,126
- Ever since we've met all
you've clone is reject my writing.

1681
01:38:13,127 --> 01:38:16,404
I guess I was foolish to
think that would end now.

1682
01:38:16,405 --> 01:38:19,768
- Well, I never said life as
a writer was going to be easy.

1683
01:38:19,769 --> 01:38:22,081
- As always, you were right.

1684
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:30,320
Bye, Whit.

1685
01:38:36,400 --> 01:38:37,400
- Good bye.

1686
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:21,479
- As always there are multiple offers

1687
01:39:21,480 --> 01:39:23,045
for the film rights to Catcher.

1688
01:39:23,046 --> 01:39:25,884
Elia Kazan, Billy Wilder,
they both keep calling.

1689
01:39:25,885 --> 01:39:28,239
- Tell them no and to stop calling.

1690
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:29,810
It'd never work as a movie.

1691
01:39:29,811 --> 01:39:30,879
- Why not?

1692
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:33,159
- 'Cause I'm the only
one that can play Holden.

1693
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:34,160
I'm too old.

1694
01:39:35,520 --> 01:39:38,043
- Little, Brown called
about your next book.

1695
01:39:38,044 --> 01:39:41,442
They asked if you were still
writing about the Glass family.

1696
01:39:41,443 --> 01:39:44,922
They'll take anything, literally anything.

1697
01:39:46,360 --> 01:39:47,805
- No, there's something I
want to talk to you about.

1698
01:39:47,806 --> 01:39:52,639
It's actually the reason
why I came back to the city.

1699
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:53,687
- What is it?

1700
01:39:57,600 --> 01:40:00,365
- I don't want to publish anymore.

1701
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:07,800
- But people really love
to read your stories.

1702
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:12,849
You'll have so many disappointed fans.

1703
01:40:14,440 --> 01:40:17,728
- My writing's, it's become my religion.

1704
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:24,199
Publishing, it gets in
the way of the meditation.

1705
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:25,406
It corrupts it.

1706
01:40:27,480 --> 01:40:29,679
I don't know how to be a husband,

1707
01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:32,919
or a father, or even a friend.

1708
01:40:32,920 --> 01:40:35,959
All I know is how to be a writer.

1709
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:38,281
If I can truly do this, if I can dedicate

1710
01:40:38,282 --> 01:40:42,519
my life to writing and
get nothing in return,

1711
01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:45,729
then I think I can find some happiness.

1712
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:53,521
- Then don't publish anymore.

1713
01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:59,079
I love you and I want you to be happy.

1714
01:40:59,080 --> 01:41:03,210
And it's like I always said,
publishing isn't everything.

1715
01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:23,279
- Dear Whit.

1716
01:42:23,280 --> 01:42:26,568
So to answer the question you
asked me all those years ago.

1717
01:42:26,569 --> 01:42:30,439
Yes, I am willing to write
for the rest of my life

1718
01:42:30,440 --> 01:42:32,568
and get nothing in return.

1719
01:42:33,480 --> 01:42:36,051
Sincerely yours, J.D. Salinger.

1719
01:42:37,305 --> 01:42:43,320
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