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aston on Aug 24, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anne Trubek on Why We Shouldn’t Still Be Learning ...

Arguing that Catcher in the Rye is obsolete because it no longer holds the shock value it once did is like arguing we should stop reading Shakespeare because nobody talks that way anymore. Good literature is good literature.

Plus Holden is hilarious. Everybody else is a phony.

ovi256 on Aug 24, 2008 [–]

Plus, no one ever talked that way. Shakespeare was always peculiar. He invented hundred of neologisms.

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