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He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He told us we should always pray to God-talk to Him and all-wherever we were. Then he started telling us how he was never ashamed, when he was in some kind of trouble or something, to get right down his knees and pray to God. He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was. Then, the next morning, in chapel, he made a speech that lasted about ten hours. The first football game of the year, he came up to school in this big goddam Cadillac, and we all had to stand up in the grandstand and give him a locomotive-that’s a cheer. And they probably came to Pencey that way. And I didn’t know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. They don’t do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school.
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And underneath the guy on the horse’s picture, it always says: “Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men.” Strictly for the birds. I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place. Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time. They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hot-shot guy on a horse jumping over a fence. Pency Prep is this school that’s in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep. When You Say Something Nobody Understands….Those Dumb, Show-offy Ripples in the High Notes.Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, 1951). Below are various excerpts from the novel, followed by a clip from South Park that begs the question, why was this book ever banned? All quotes provided below may be cited as J. D. It is about a passionate, confused, and sometimes insufferably negative young man named Holden Caulfield. Salinger’s first-and only- published novel. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye - Excerpts