A CONNECTION IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO THINGS

- A LINK, OR BOND. THESE LINKS OFTEN LEAD TO NEW

LINKS, WHICH IN TURN CAN POINT THE WAY TO ANOTHER

CONNECTION AND SO ON, SUGGESTING THE IDEA THAT

EVERYTHING EVENTUALLY CONNECTS.

THIS MAGAZINE SHOWS THE SEEMINGLY DISASSOCIATED, AND

ABSTRACT CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EVENTS, PLACES, IDOLS,

REAL AND FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, USING INFORMATIVE

TYPOGRAPHY AND GRAPHICS,

FOCUSING ON THEMES OF REVOLUTION AND REBELLION, THIS

ZINE IS AN EXPERIMENT INTO THE IDEA OF CONNECTION AND

ITS PROCESS.

- EASTER RISING 1916 - EMIGRATION DURING THE 1930'S

- LIVERPOOL CITY - JOHN LENNON - MARK DAVID CHAPMAN -

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE -

Introduction»

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YOU MAY KILL THE REVOLUTIONARY BUT NEVER THE REVOLUTION…

ROG-ER CASE-MENT

SURELY, IT IS A BRAVER, A SANER AND TRUER THING

TO BE A REBEL, IN ACT AND IN DEED, AGAINST SUCH

CIRCUMSTANCES AS THESE, THAN TO TAMELY ACCEPT IT,

AS THE NATURAL LOT OF MEN.

Roger Casement (1864-1916) was executed for treason in August 1916, following the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland earlier that year. This is an excerpt from the speech he made after his conviction on 29 June 1916.

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The Irish have traditionally been involved in the building trade and transport particularly as dockers, following an influx of Irish workers, or navvies, who built the canal, road and rail networks in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Chapman has been widely associated with the book The Catcher in the Rye, which he carried with him at the time and

claimed would explain his perspective. Various specific motivations have also been suggested.

Chapman has since stated that what he did was wrong…

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Following the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, the continuing levels of emigration from Ireland came as a disappointment to many who believed that British colonialism had caused and perpetuated the emigration problem. Within this context, there was a need to explain emigration in ways that deflected blame away from the new state authorities.

During the 1930s, the emigration of thousands of young Irish men and women to English cities such as Liverpool sparked widespread comment and criticism. 0000013

I had a dream. I found myself in a dirty, sooty city. It was night and winter; and dark and raining. I was in Liverpool.

In the centre was a round pool; in the middle of it a small island. On it stood a single tree; a magnolia in a shower of reddish blossoms. It was as though the tree stood inthe sunlight, and were, at the same time, the source of light. Everything was extremely unpleasant; black and opaque - just as I felt then. But I had a vision of unearthly beauty . . . and that’s why I was able to live at all. Liverpool is the pool of life.

It was as though the tree stood inthe sunlight, and were, at the same time, the source of light. Everything was extremely unpleasant; black and opaque

Carl Jung

In the later 20th century industries in Liverpool included engineering, cement manufacture, sugar refining and flour milling. For a time, in the 1950s and 1960s the local economy boomedInhabitants of Liverpool are referred to as Liverpudlians but are also known as “Scousers”, in reference to the local dish, a form of stew. known as

“scouse”

The word “Scouse” has also become synonymous with the Liverpool accent and dialect. Liverpool’s status as a port city has contributed to its diverse population, which, historically, were drawn from a wide range of peoples, cultures, and religions, particularly those from Ireland.»

Liverpool came into existence to move things around: cotton, sugar, slaves and, later, paperwork when the insurance companies moved there. despite everything, infecting the country as all ports do, with new ideas.Its period as an industrial city that made things had not even lasted half a century, it had to return to what it once did, preoccupying itself with impermanence. Now Liverpool has a shot at reinvention. It is accused of trading on its past but its past is modernity.

Its heritage is people dreaming of escape and of the future.

John Lennon’s name will always be synonymous with peace and political activism. In his early days, he was rumored to have engaged in fistfights when the Beatles, dressed in black leather jackets, played the seedier clubs in Hamburg sailor bars, as they were sometimes known. It might have been hard at the time to predict Lennon’s meteoric rise to fame and his ultimate espousal of peace and political activism, although he was always an iconoclast and a bit of a rebel, even from his early days in Liverpool. His song “Give Peace a Chance” remains an anthem for the anti-war movement – and probably always will.

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you may say I’m a dreamerBUT I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE

to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want ell me thatYou say you want a RevolutionYou say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me

John Lennon

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to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it’s evolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon’t you know that you can count me outDon’t you know it’s gonna be all rightall right, all right You say you want ell me thatYou say you want a RevolutionYou say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the worldYou tell me

(9Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)

NYI ∇

On the 8th of December, 1980, Mark David Chapman

shot John Lennon 5 times outside the Dakota

Apartment Building, 72nd Street and Central Park

West, New York. Chapman took off his hat and

coat and threw then on the sidewalk. He took The

Catcher in the Rye out of his pocket and tried to read

it as he paced the sidewalk and waited...

and waited …

Anyway, she was somebody you always felt like talking to on the phone. But I was too afraid my parents would answer, and then they’d find out I was in New York and kicked out of Pencey and all. So I just finished putting on my shirt. Then I got all ready and went down in the elevator to the lobby to see what was going on. Except for a few pimpy-looking guys, and a few whory-looking blondes, the lobby was pretty empty. But you could hear the band playing in the Lavender Room, and so I went in there. It wasn’t very crowded, but they gave me a lousy table anyway--way in the back. I should’ve waved a buck under the head-waiter’s nose. In New York, boy, money really talks--I’m not kidding. The band was putrid. Buddy Singer. Very brassy, but not good brassy--corny brassy. Also, there were very few people around my age in the place. In fact, nobody was around my age. They were mostly old, show-offy-looking guys with their dates. Except at the table right next to me. At the table right next to me, there were these three girls around thirty or so. The whole three of them were pretty ugly, and they all had on the kind of hats that you knew they didn’t really live in New York, but one of them, the blonde one, wasn’t too bad. She was sort of cute, the blonde one, and I started giving her the old eye a little bit, but just then the waiter came up for my order. I ordered a Scotch and soda, and told him not to mix it--I said it fast as hell, because if you hem and haw, they think you’re under twenty-one and won’t sell you any intoxicating liquor. I had trouble with him anyway, though. “I’m sorry, sir,” he said, “but do you have some verification of your age? Your driver’s license, perhaps?” I gave him this very cold stare, like he’d insulted the hell out of me, and asked him, “Do I look like I’m under twenty-one?” “I’m sorry, sir, but we have our--” “Okay, okay,” I said. I figured the hell with it. “Bring me a Coke.” He started to go away, but I called him back. “Can’tcha stick a little rum in it or something?” I asked him. I asked him very nicely and all. “I can’t sit in a corny place like this cold sober. Can’tcha stick a little rum in it or something?” “I’m very sorry, sir. . .” he said, and beat it on me. I didn’t hold it against him, though. They lose their jobs if they get caught selling to a minor. I’m a goddam minor. I started giving the three witches at the next table the eye again. That is, the blonde one. The other two were strictly from hunger. I didn’t do it crudely, though. I just gave all three of them this very cool glance and all. What they did, though, the three of them, when I did it, they started giggling like morons. They probably thought I was too young to give anybody the once-over. That annoyed hell out of me-- you’d’ve thought I wanted to marry them or something. I should’ve given them the freeze, after they did that, but the trouble was, I really felt like dancing. I’m very fond of dancing, sometimes, and that was one of the times. So all of a sudden, I sort of leaned over and said, “Would any of you girls care to dance?” I didn’t ask them crudely or anything. Very suave, in fact. But God damn it, they thought that was a panic, too. They started giggling some more. I’m not kidding,

they were three real morons. “C’mon,” I said. “I’ll dance with you one at a time. All right? How ‘bout it? Mark I really felt like dancing. Finally, the blonde one got up to dance with me, because you could tell I was really talking to her, and we walked out to the dance floor. The other two grools nearly had hysterics when we did. I certainly must’ve been very hard up to even bother with any of them. David. The blonde was some dancer. She was one of the best dancers I ever danced with. I’m not kidding, some of these very stupid girls can really knock you out on a dance floor. You take a really smart Chapman time she’s trying to lead you around the dance floor, or else she’s such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay at the table and just get drunk with her. “You really can dance,” I told the blonde one. “You oughta be a pro. I mean it. I danced with a pro once, and you’re twice as good as she was. Did you ever hear of shot John.“What?” she said. She wasn’t even liste Lennon . She was looking all around the place. “I said did you ever hear of Marco and Miranda?” “I don’t know. No. I don’t know.” “Well, they’re dancers, she’s a dancer. She’s not too hot, though. She does everything she’s supposed to, but she’s not so hot anyway. You know when a girl’s really a terrific dancer?” “Wudga say?” she said. She wasn’t listening to me, even. Her mind was December 8, 1980 “I said do you know when a girl’s really a terrific dancer?” “Uh-uh.” “Well--where I have my hand on your back. If I think there isn’t anything underneath my hand--no can, no legs, no feet, no anything--then the girl’s really a terrific dancer.”

Anyway, she was somebody you always felt like talking to on the phone. But I was too afraid my parents would answer, and then they’d find out I was in New York and kicked out of Pencey and all. So I just finished putting on my shirt. Then I got all ready and went down in the elevator to the lobby to see what was going on. Except for a few pimpy-looking guys, and a few whory-looking blondes, the lobby was pretty empty. But you could hear the band playing in the Lavender Room, and so I went in there. It wasn’t very crowded, but they gave me a lousy table anyway--way in the back. I should’ve waved a buck under the head-waiter’s nose. In New York, boy, money really talks--I’m not kidding. The band was putrid. Buddy Singer. Very brassy, but not good brassy--corny brassy. Also, there were very few people around my age in the place. In fact, nobody was around my age. They were mostly old, show-offy-looking guys with their dates. Except at the table right next to me. At the table right next to me, there were these three girls around thirty or so. The whole three of them were pretty ugly, and they all had on the kind of hats that you knew they didn’t really live in New York, but one of them, the blonde one, wasn’t too bad. She was sort of cute, the blonde one, and I started giving her the old eye a little bit, but just then the waiter came up for my order. I ordered a Scotch and soda, and told him not to mix it--I said it fast as hell, because if you hem and haw, they think you’re under twenty-one and won’t sell you any intoxicating liquor. I had trouble with him anyway, though. “I’m sorry, sir,” he said, “but do you have some verification of your age? Your driver’s license, perhaps?” I gave him this very cold stare, like he’d insulted the hell out of me, and asked him, “Do I look like I’m under twenty-one?” “I’m sorry, sir, but we have our--” “Okay, okay,” I said. I figured the hell with it. “Bring me a Coke.” He started to go away, but I called him back. “Can’tcha stick a little rum in it or something?” I asked him. I asked him very nicely and all. “I can’t sit in a corny place like this cold sober. Can’tcha stick a little rum in it or something?” “I’m very sorry, sir. . .” he said, and beat it on me. I didn’t hold it against him, though. They lose their jobs if they get caught selling to a minor. I’m a goddam minor. I started giving the three witches at the next table the eye again. That is, the blonde one. The other two were strictly from hunger. I didn’t do it crudely, though. I just gave all three of them this very cool glance and all. What they did, though, the three of them, when I did it, they started giggling like morons. They probably thought I was too young to give anybody the once-over. That annoyed hell out of me-- you’d’ve thought I wanted to marry them or something. I should’ve given them the freeze, after they did that, but the trouble was, I really felt like dancing. I’m very fond of dancing, sometimes, and that was one of the times. So all of a sudden, I sort of leaned over and said, “Would any of you girls care to dance?” I didn’t ask them crudely or anything. Very suave, in fact. But God damn it, they thought that was a panic, too. They started giggling some more. I’m not kidding,

they were three real morons. “C’mon,” I said. “I’ll dance with you one at a time. All right? How ‘bout it? Mark I really felt like dancing. Finally, the blonde one got up to dance with me, because you could tell I was really talking to her, and we walked out to the dance floor. The other two grools nearly had hysterics when we did. I certainly must’ve been very hard up to even bother with any of them. David. The blonde was some dancer. She was one of the best dancers I ever danced with. I’m not kidding, some of these very stupid girls can really knock you out on a dance floor. You take a really smart Chapman time she’s trying to lead you around the dance floor, or else she’s such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay at the table and just get drunk with her. “You really can dance,” I told the blonde one. “You oughta be a pro. I mean it. I danced with a pro once, and you’re twice as good as she was. Did you ever hear of shot John.“What?” she said. She wasn’t even liste Lennon . She was looking all around the place. “I said did you ever hear of Marco and Miranda?” “I don’t know. No. I don’t know.” “Well, they’re dancers, she’s a dancer. She’s not too hot, though. She does everything she’s supposed to, but she’s not so hot anyway. You know when a girl’s really a terrific dancer?” “Wudga say?” she said. She wasn’t listening to me, even. Her mind was December 8, 1980 “I said do you know when a girl’s really a terrific dancer?” “Uh-uh.” “Well--where I have my hand on your back. If I think there isn’t anything underneath my hand--no can, no legs, no feet, no anything--then the girl’s really a terrific dancer.”

Chapman has been widely associated with the book The Catcher

in the Rye, which he carried with him at the time and claimed

would explain his perspective. Various specific motivations have

also been suggested.

Chapman has since stated that what he did was wrong…

The small part of me must be the Devil.

The Catcher

in the RyeIf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap,

but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, my parents would hvae about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my

father. They're nice and all - I'm not saying that - but they're also touch as hell. Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just

before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy. I mean that's all I told D.B. about, and he's my brother and all. He's in Hollywood. That isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every

weekend. He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe. He got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It cost him damn near four thousand bucks. He's got a lot of dough, now.

He didn't use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The best one in it was "The Secret Goldfish." It was about this little kid that

wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish becasue he'd bought it with his own money. It killed me. Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.

Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is this school that's in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. You probably heard of it. You've probably seen the ads, anyway. They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing

some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fence. Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time. I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place. And underneath the guy on the horse's picture, it always says: "Since 1888 we

have been moulding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men." Strictly for the birds. They don't do any damn more moulding at Pencey than they do at any other school. And I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking

and all. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pencey that way.

Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall. The game with Saxon Hall was supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win. I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on

top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all. You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place. You couldn't see the grandstand too hot,

but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side, because the visiting team hardly ever bought many people with them.

There were never many girls at all at the football games. Only seniors were allowed to bring girls with them. It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it. I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while,

even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something. Old Selma Thurmer - she was the headmaster's daughter - showed up at the games quite often, but she wasn't exactly the type that drove you mad

with desire. She was a pretty nice girl, though. I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation. I liked her. She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn

falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry. What I like about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was. She probably knew what a phony slob he was.

The reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game, was because I'd just got back from New York with the fencing team. I was the goddam manager of the fencing team. Very big deal. We'd gone in to New York that

morning for this fencing meet with McBurney School. Only, we didn't have the meet. I left all the foils on the goddam subway. It wasn't all my fault. I had to keep getting up to look at this map, so we'd know where to get off. So we got back to

Pencey around two-thirty instead of around dinnertime. The whole team ostracized me the whole way back on the train. It was pretty funny, in a way.

The other reason I wasn't down at the game was because I was on my way to say good-by to old Spencer, my history teacher. He had the grippe, and I figured I probably wouldn't see him again till Christmas vacation started. He wrote me this note

saying he wanted to see me before I went home. He knew I wasn't coming back to Pencey. Anyway, she was somebody you always felt like talking to on the phone. But I

was too afraid my parents would answer, and then they’d find out I was in New York and kicked out of Pencey and all. So I just finished putting on my shirt. Then I got all ready and went down in the elevator to the lobby to see what was going on.

Except for a few pimpy-looking guys, and a few whory-looking blondes, the lobby was pretty empty. But you could hear the band playing in the Lavender Room, and so I went in there. It wasn’t very crowded, but they gave me a lousy table anyway--

way in the back. I should’ve waved a buck under the head-waiter’s nose. In New York, boy, money really talks--I’m not kidding.

The band was putrid. Buddy Singer. Very brassy, but not good brassy--corny

brassy. Also, there were very few people around my age in the place. In fact, nobody was around my age. They were mostly old, show-offy-looking guys with their dates.

Except at the table right next to me. At the table right next to me, there were

these three girls around thirty or so. The whole three of them were pretty ugly, and they all had on the kind of hats that you knew they didn’t really live in New York, but one of them, the blonde one, wasn’t too bad. She was sort of cute, the blonde

one, and I started giving her the old eye a little bit, but just then the waiter

came up for my order. I ordered a Scotch and soda, and told him not to mix it--I

said it fast as hell, because if you hem and haw, they think you’re under twenty-one and won’t sell you any intoxicating liquor. I had trouble with him anyway, though.

“I’m sorry, sir,” he said, “but do you have some verification of your age? Your

driver’s license, perhaps?”

I gave him this very cold stare, like he’d insulted the hell out of me, and

asked him, “Do I look like I’m under twenty-one?”

“I’m sorry, sir, but we have our--”

“Okay, okay,” I said. I figured the hell with it. “Bring me a Coke.” He

started to go away, but I called him back. “Can’tcha stick a little rum in it or

something?” I asked him. I asked him very nicely and all. “I can’t sit in a corny

place like this cold sober. Can’tcha stick a little rum in it or something?”

“I’m very sorry, sir. . .” he said, and beat it on me. I didn’t hold it

against him, though. They lose their jobs if they get caught selling to a minor. I’m

a goddam minor.

I started giving the three witches at the next table the eye again. That is,

the blonde one. The other two were strictly from hunger. I didn’t do it crudely,

tho If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of

crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, my parents would hvae about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. They’re quite touchy about anything like that, especially my

father. They’re nice and all - I’m not saying that - but they’re also touch as hell. Besides, I’m not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I’ll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just

before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy. I mean that’s all I told D.B. about, and he’s my brother and all. He’s in Hollywood. That isn’t too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every

weekend. He’s going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe. He got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It cost him damn near four thousand bucks. He’s got a lot of dough, now.

He didn’t use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The best one in it was “The Secret Goldfish.” It was about this little kid that

wouldn’t let anybody look at his goldfish becasue he’d bought it with his own money. It killed me. Now he’s out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies. Don’t even mention them to me.

Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is this school that’s in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. You probably heard of it. You’ve probably seen the ads, anyway. They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing

some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fence. Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time. I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place. And underneath the guy on the horse’s picture, it always says: “Since 1888 we

have been moulding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men.” Strictly for the birds. They don’t do any damn more moulding at Pencey than they do at any other school. And I didn’t know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and

all. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pencey that way.

Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall. The game with Saxon Hall was supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn’t win. I remember around three o’clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on

top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all. You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place. You couldn’t see the grandstand too hot,

but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side, because the visiting team hardly ever bought many people with them.

There were never many girls at all at the football games. Only seniors were allowed to bring girls with them. It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it. I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around ugh. I just gave

all three of them this very cool glance and all. What they did,

J.D Salinger

The small part of me must be the Devil.