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in case you thought it wasn’t actually checking to see if the world had ended, view source reveals:
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I was eating a sandwich at my desk when our receptionist called. “Mr. Salinger is here,” she said, “and he wants to meet you.” I said: “Mr. Salinger? What’s his first name?” And she said, “Jerome, his name is Jerome.” I said, “Send him in.”
In he came. He was very tall, dark-haired, had a horse face. He was melancholy looking. It’s the truth — the first person I thought of when I saw him was Hamlet.
—Robert Giroux on meeting Salinger and how he lost the chance to publish Catcher in the Rye
