I learned long ago, care for family, and your mates..The rest don't really matter... But like has been said, i'd be more sad at losing another one of us that someone of the Tv etc. Someone i've never even heard of,
Mate, you know i go for Tuesday breakfast club, most of my mates, and my lifelong best mate is a senior paramedic.. In hear the stories from them all the time...
Catcher in The Rye? I loved that book when I was a teenager. Didn’t know Mark Chapman was a fan. Makes sense, in a way. Must be **** being famous. JD Salinger certainly wasn’t keen on the experience, that novel’s success turned him into a recluse.
Chapman had a copy of the book when they arrested him. He was obsessed with it and hated Lennon, who he’d previously loved, as he thought he was a phoney. Holden hates phoneys. I may have a blurred memory of this but I think Chapman booked a hotel room and hired a hooker but didn’t have sex with her, which mimicked what Holden did when he went to NYC.
Yeah, as I recall from the novel, Holden Caulfield was an idealistic and principled young man who became mentally unwell when he realised the adult world didn’t live up to his high standards. So not surprising that someone like Chapman would identify strongly. I didn’t know about that connection. By accident I stumbled on the John Lennon memorial area of Central Park - called Strawberry Fields. There’s some ****ing strange people hanging around there, lots of harmless hippy types but some real Lennon worshippers too. Easy to see how some of those characters might put him on a pedestal, then shoot him when he doesn’t measure up.
I was a bit of a Lennon freak when I was younger. I did a work week in NYC every 6 weeks for over 2 years and never visited the Dakota or Strawberry Fields. It was always something I’d do on the next trip.
No, why? It's a death, we are all going that way.. I find it more strange that this is the main news on sky news page, when considering what is happening all around the world..
