Back in my high school days in the 1960s, I believed the guy who wrote “Catcher in the Rye” also wrote “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour”. The title was right there in the Modern Library catalog. I imagined it had something to do with the carpenters and Seymour literally or figuratively building a house.
Then I was embarrassed to be told it was two novellas “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters” and “Seymour” under one cover, like the 1950s Ace Double novel sci-fi books. I was humiliated; after that I avoided the artsy smartsies who edited the high school literary magazine.
I had dreams of lurking in a field near a cliff as Modern Library catalog editors unsuspectingly frolicked in the rye, then, when I found one near the edge, I would spring out of hiding and push them over.
Now Magic Moon Press setting up a new generation of innocent youth to be humiliated in high school Lit class. Seems like there’s a need to bring back the lurker in the rye….
Especially with the hypodermic sticking out of its neck. I hope they gave that bird the really good drugs.
invader
8 years ago
I can’t tell if that bird at the top is a dove or a crow. Furthermore it looks like the cross is the equivalent of a bug zapper, only it is used for birds.
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It’s a mystery, Nathan. It says so right under them.
And that’s why nothing else does. Duh.
I have to ask; is she the author of BLESSED ARE THE EAGLES AND LOOSE ENDS?
That sounds like an odd book.
Maybe she is the author of BLESSED ARE THE EAGLES and LOOSE ENDS?
Back in my high school days in the 1960s, I believed the guy who wrote “Catcher in the Rye” also wrote “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour”. The title was right there in the Modern Library catalog. I imagined it had something to do with the carpenters and Seymour literally or figuratively building a house.
Then I was embarrassed to be told it was two novellas “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters” and “Seymour” under one cover, like the 1950s Ace Double novel sci-fi books. I was humiliated; after that I avoided the artsy smartsies who edited the high school literary magazine.
I had dreams of lurking in a field near a cliff as Modern Library catalog editors unsuspectingly frolicked in the rye, then, when I found one near the edge, I would spring out of hiding and push them over.
Now Magic Moon Press setting up a new generation of innocent youth to be humiliated in high school Lit class. Seems like there’s a need to bring back the lurker in the rye….
I love that dream!
Fair warning: I will write a coming-of-age Lovecraftian novel just so I can TOTALLY steal “The Lurker in the Rye.”
I bet that lower right bird is feeling fabulous with her sparking tiara and one high heel.
Especially with the hypodermic sticking out of its neck. I hope they gave that bird the really good drugs.
I can’t tell if that bird at the top is a dove or a crow. Furthermore it looks like the cross is the equivalent of a bug zapper, only it is used for birds.