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January 13, 2006 |
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Untitled #4
FOUND by Margaret Lin
in Santa Monica, California
I found it in a book that I bought from Wilshire Books. It was in a book called "The Catcher in the Rye."
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Kind of ironic to have this picture in The Catcher in the Rye.. I like it.
i don't know why anyone would phrase it like that... 'in a book called "The Catcher in the Rye"' I would have just said.. i found it in The Catcher in the Rye. It needs no 'a book called' preface.
Monica, either Margaret (the poster) was being ironic when she said "in a book called...", or she really had just never heard of it before.
I'm hoping for ironic. That book was such a rite of passage, for so many people. Scary to think people might not have heard of it. I do get that she was being either ironic or naive.
Yes, but is was it taken at a store called Toys RUs and if so, who subjects their children to having their pictures taken in a parking lot--no wonder the kids seem pissed.
I feel sorry for the people in the costumes, it looks like that giraffe head would be pretty heavy.
I have never heard of that book. Maybe it was before my time? Anyway, I like the pic.
Angel, how old are you b/c I'm pretty sure everyone has to read it in high school and if you don't then you should have at least heard of it by now.
p.s I LOVE GIRAFFES!!
Angel, how old are you b/c I'm pretty sure everyone has to read it in high school and if you don't then you should have at least heard of it by now.
p.s I LOVE GIRAFFES!!
That was my first thought too, Monica.
Also, it really bugs me that the picture was taken at an angle.
I'm lovin' the plaid pants and knee high socks!
i feel like those children are hostages and the giraffe suits are thier disguises so that after they make the 50 billion dollar transaction the can leave the country without anyone knowing who they were
Perhaps she is foreign and never heard of the book. Duh. Need we be SOOOO ethnocentric???
Well, she said she bought the book, people, lay off. Chances are good she didn't just buy it for kindling.
I wonder WHERE those people were!?!
what if the giraffes *are* the parents? and i agree with oliva about the irony. that was the first thing I said when i saw this.
I find it interesting that although several comments made regarding this photo being found in a copy of 'The Catcher In The Rye'mention that is a super-classic, and it is, no one seems to have noted that theme of Holden Caulfield's thoughts revolved around saving kids from having to become adults. Then the photo, "I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid, I don't wanna grow up!" And Geoffrey and the other giraffe seem to have 'caught' the children. The photo and book must be together! I applaud the accident or insight that led to their juxtaposition.
I think the person who took this picture was a maniac leaving a clue - psychopaths notoriously love Catcher in the Rye. This photo should be taken to the police immediately.
Zeke, my friend, you have saved this entire comment section with your observant, insightful post. Olivia alluded to it with the very first comment, but I don't think anyone else made the connection. You get an A.
I was "supposed" to read this book in HS, but I was a rebel who flat out refused to read any of the compulsory stuff. I coasted through by paying rapt attention in the daily class discussions. I have since read the majority of those books I refused in high school. Except The Oxbow Incident.
well, i used to work at toys r us, and for random events, my boss would sometimes have to (maybe voluntarily?) wear this suit. all i know is that he wore it with no clothes on underneath, because it was so hot. maybe those kids know something we don't about this particular geoffrey.
I don't think your boss wore the suit w/ no clothes on just because it was so hot, Alison. Wearing a pair of boxers and a t-shirt isn't going to make one helluva difference in the grand scheme of things.
It's really disturbing to think that there's a naked guy running around in a giraffe suit at a toy store somewhere in Santa Cruz.
ok yeah i thought that was geoffrey
Oh, yeah. That's Holden, Allie, and Phoeb. Fun time.
lol@ naked guy in a giraffe suit
I didn't have to read Catcher in the Rye in high school - I never read it until a few years ago; however, I had heard of it.
Perhaps the finder was just being poetic.
Those giraffes frighten me just a bit.
I think it's great that this find came up only days after the author, JD Salinger, died. I've been trying to find my copy of Cather in the Rye to re-read. Too bad my copy doesn't have a creepy photo in it of giraffe gangsters taking early '80s children hostage.
Completely unrelated, is anyone else having trouble with the "previous" button? I'm being shot back in time to 2006. :/