Jerome D. Salinger - Goodbye by Benny Goodman

[TheBernie2201]

Two beautiful souls, both will never be forgotten.

[miseroooooo]

好きだなぁ。

ネオンライトの家路みたい。

[snortfork]

we played a tape of this at my father's memorial service. he loved jazz & would've approved.

[sabeth17]

I never read Catcher in the Rye. I heard Goodbye by Benny Goodman on Sirius 40's on 4 today and HAD to find it on YT. This song is so incredible!!! The talent that Benny Goodman had is among the greatest in Heaven.

[melodharmony]

Great tribute to a great writer and employing the genius of Benny Goodman. great video.

[berriganfan]

Thank you

a fitting tribute with a great song

[ANDREWEHUNT]

What a beautiful video! Thank you so much for making it. It's a splendid tribute to J.D. And it sets the perfect tone for a farewell to such a great man. Bless you!

[68shamoa]

excellent!

[dzheger]

Worthy solemn tribute to a great writer.

[Coupal1]

Lovely tribute! It's too bad that he didn't write more novels.

[1920sbuff]

Wow, great tribute!!!

[240252]

Hi, your arithmetics is TOO much for me. You see, I am rather a man of letters so I am giving up half way through counting all the stars you gave me! Thanks, thanks :))

[JCJasion]

That SO goes a LONG way in explaining his estrangement and alienation. As a 2nd generaation Polish American gay kid growing up in the cocoon of my family's blue collar Roman Catholic -centric family culture, I felt very out of place in the lace-curtain-wannabe Irish mileu of my all male Roman Catholic High School. I didn't feel at home until attending Rutgers and falling in with the 2nd Gen. Ashkhanazm Jewish-American kids who's forbears came from the same part of Europe as my ancestors.

[JCJasion]

I didn't know he was a 'paisan'!!!

Thanks for that bit of information Grzegorz!!

James Carl (Karol) Jasion

[240252]

Hi Karol (or James?) Thanks for your very interesting little story about your looking for your self ID in your childhood. The Catcher in the Rye is just such tale: about hardship of looking for one's self truth. And how important is to find and to define it in the right time of one's life! Thanks again. By the way: could you tell me what means "paisan"? I can't see such word in my dictionary

[barbcard]

"Paisan" refers to a person from one's native country in Italian.

[2ekan]

Thanks a lot. I have always loved this book and as a teacher I can testify that it still captivates young readers.

"Life is so beautiful and so sad."

[240252]

Yes, for me this book was a hurricane that wiped off all those stupid little petty odds and ends of the teenage mind. For the first time I had a feeling, life can be still nice and funny, while it is so serious beneath. It had a lot to do with something I read much later: with an ancient Greek concept of the "seriousness of life".

[abendstunde49]

What a beautiful and touching memorial you have created! Thank you.

[240252]

Thank you!. Jerome D. deserved much more than just my little clip for him.

[albertdiner]

Nice tribute, and interesting the polish connection in your notes. I do hope that in all thise years in seclusion, J.D. Salinger may

have written more novels or short stories.

Holden Caulfied of CITR is a character

that stays on your mind forever.

[240252]

I am almost SURE that in upcomeing few months or maybe years, the world literature will have an important influx of first class stories or maybe even novels he had been writing in his retreat. Thank you for your post :-)

[vanchus]

I read The Catcher OF The Rye for the first time more than 20 years ago when I was taking ESL classes. Not sure why, I fell in love with this novel right away and came to admire the author, Mr. Salinger.

I am sad to see you go but confident that your work will continue to be around for many more years to come.

Thank you and goodbye Mr. Salinger!

Vanchus

[240252]

As you can see, you are not the only one who fell in love with that book. We make quite a group of fans, here, as it seems. Thank you!

[barbcard]

Don't know what happened to my comment. Anyway, a fine tribute and I hope everyone reads your note re Salinger's sojourn in Bydgoszcz.

[roybo1930]

This is BEAUTIFUL!!! And such a Bitter Sweet tribute. VERY WELL DONE INDEED!

[240252]

Thank you!

[barbcard]

A perfect tribute. I hope everyone reads your note re JDS's Bydgoszcz connection. Eventually his strange personality compromised his literary reputation in America but "Catcher" still has many fans.

[240252]

Thanks B., you know what I feel about that sudden - not unexpected, though - death of the hero of my imagination (ex aequo with Tamara) in last few years. I'm preparing today a bigger text about his Polish experience for the press

[barbcard]

G: Terrific! I'd love to see your article re JDS. My computer can give a rough translation from Polish (& other languages into English.

[orangewoman671]

Great Salinger!! I also read the Catcher in the Rye several years ago. I read it in english and it wasn't easy at that time, I didn't understand this language completely or fluently. The mysterious and bad tempered writter is gone.