Now, there's been this documentary done by the CBC or BBC or some foreign agency and it showed his house and the convenience store and finally, video tapes of JD himself. And it was him. Lets start off with some background on the author, Paul Alexander. Ol' Paul tells us from the start that Catcher was his favorite book. Now let me say something and lets not get mistaken about it.
Catcher is a masterpiece.
I mean it, a full grown masterpiece. But we've got enough masterpieces. Its a guideline. Its a course in Zen for the disenchanted American. And someone, I should assume, with a healthy, working knowledge of Rilke, Issa, Bassho, and Lao Tzu.