If anyone hasn’t read his ‘Nine Stories’ or ‘Fanny and Zoey’ please do. They are great and quite conservative in outlook.
“Robert Ackley - Holden’s unpleasant dormmate, whose personal habits are dirty and whose room stinks. Holden suspects that Ackley does not brush his teeth and describes them as mossy. Cursed with acne, Ackley constantly picks at the sores. Ackley dislikes Stadlater, calling him a “son of a b****.” Holden finds Ackley disgusting but appears to feel sorry for him at the same time.”
I think he was my college roommate in the late 60s...long live Ackley...lol
RIP Mr. Salinger...RIP.
I was thinking about Salinger just the other day. Too bad he hid so much talent under a bushel.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1965/06/19/1965_06_19_032_TNY_CARDS_000276654
"ABSTRACT: Seymour Glass, age 7, writes a letter to his parents, his sister Beatrice (Boo Boo) & his twin brothers Walter and Waker. He is at a children's camp with his brother Buddy, who is 5. At this time, their mother is 28 and she and their father are touring as a stage team. This letter is on an adult level. Seymour advises his parents, expresses views on God, people and writers. He & Buddy have been reading adult literature for some time. He sends along a list of books he'd like to have sent from the public library, along with his estimate of each of the writers. He foretells the future: Buddy will be a writer working from a room that looks like the one he always dreamed about; he, Seymour will live to the age of 30."
Seymour Glass, RIP