In Dog Years

• 2012-09-12 582 notes

  marinaesque:

  am currently reading this remarkable biography of JD Salinger and there’s a chapter about his experience at Valley Forge Military Academy (the model for Pencey Prep in Catcher in The Rye)

  • flunked out of several public and private schools before his dad enrolled him to Valley Forge
  • Young Jerry’s academic performance was well below the average. His most dismal grades were in Latin and geometry. (uh. “I saved Latin” and solved The Hardest Geometry Problem In The World)
  • He was manager of the school fencing team, but this no doubt came under the heading of Dramatic Art.
  • Served as a reporter for the school paper, acted in two school plays, taking a female part in each, and winning rave reviews. (“ I wrote a hit play and directed it, so I’m not sweating it either.”
  • no indication that he was much involved in sports. His records state that he liked Ping-Pong and soccer, but he seems to have been alarmingly accident prone (on various occasions suffered a broken leg, a broken ankle, a broken arm, struck on the head by a ball)
  • he always talked in a pretentious manner as if he were reciting something from Shakespeare and he had a sardonic wit.
  • (THE BEST ONE:) His only other recorded interest is in “TROPICAL FISH”

  You guys.

  all this time i thought Max was Holden but it turns out Max was Jerome and Holden was Jerome and Max was Wes and Wes was Jerome and Holden was Wes and..

  Source: marinaesque

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      Jenny looks pretty hot in that picture. I’d be interested in reading the biography.

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