JD Salinger died
My friend in Stockholm informed me per email that after Kurt Vonnegut and John Updike now also the third author of my Holy Trinity, J.D. Salinger, died. Salinger’s option for a reclusive life was also an option for life in stress-FREEDOM.
I read that the sales of ”The Catcher in the Rye” is soaring and I am wondering whether reading about Holden Caulfield, Franny and Zooey will start a trend toward self-inspection among today’s teenagers and youngsters, mostly busy with raising their status through the acquisition of gadgets.
intoxicated by liberation philosophy
“The best of life is but intoxication.” (Byron)
In my younger days it was vodka, whiskey, wine, sex, romantic love, theater, movies, literature, philosophy I got intoxicated with. Nowadays it’s mostly just literature and philosophy. Luckily I take up ideas slowly and forget them fast (some of my friends suggest that this could possibly be a retarded effect of all the alcohol I got intoxicated with in my younger days), so I can re-read pages again and again on human bondage and liberation by Epicurus, Michel Montaigne, Voltaire, Esther Vilar, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Vonnegut, Manfred Max-Neef and about a dozen of other authors experiencing every time almost the same thrill I felt when I first read them. Is this an anticipation of the beatitudes promised by Alzheimer ‘s?
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