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I just finished reading "The Catcher in the Rye" this evening. I always suspected that my inner voice would have taken something from Holden Caulfield, and so it was.
One of the best books I've read, simply because so much of it resonated.
The uncomfortable mix between hero worship and contempt, the desire to be drunk most the time, the helpless urge to keep starting fights you know that you'll lose, the heightened sense of prudishness fighting against the desire to get laid, the desire always to be on the side of the outsider, the rejection of hypocrisy, the almost automatic contempt of anything that you find yourself wanting too much, the painful self awareness, the lack of concentration....
So much of it rang true.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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