 20050221 A girl I knew.
Probably for every man is one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. I just read J.D. Salinger's short story, A girl I knew. It broke my heart. In my limited traveling, I too have had relationships that subsisted only on 12-word shared vocabularies, and attractions that are unexplainable save for the warm, fond static you feel for someone after a few moments of quiet observation. I sympathize with Salinger. I envy his love for her, and desperately wish this boy-meets-girl story wasn't his true tragedy. 2
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C. said... What a sad and yet fantastic story...JD Salinger's amazing. 1:24 PM yp said... That's one of my favorite stories in that collection also and reread it recently. I've started carrying all the uncollected stories with me as though a magazine. It makes for good subway reading material. 5:40 PM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |