here's some stuff for you that will make you think . . . "Holden Caulfield, the misunderstood anti-hero of "The Catcher in the Rye," and unintentional spiritual guide for stalkers and assassins, fantasized about being deaf and mute and living in a cabin in the woods, communicating in scribbled notes with his deaf-mute spouse. " "To some extent, of course, Salinger's reticence is understandable. I am not one whose adolescence was transformed by reading The Catcher in the Rye -- I thought the book was amusing, but its hero, Holden Caulfield, an idiot -- yet it has acquired a cult following in the half-century since it was published. Some of its most fervent fans are clearly unbalanced, and a surprising number of modern assassins -- John Hinckley, Mark David Chapman, Arthur Bremer, among others -- were found to have it in their possession" "... the CIA maintained training camps for assassins at the time. 40 Whether Chapman ... to read his copy of The Catcher in the Rye when amazed New York City police ... " "like Mark Chapman and John Hinckley, kept copies of A Catcher in the Rye, and that many alleged assassins -- James Earl Ray, John Wilkes Booth, and Lee Harvey ... " ------------------ Life is too short to be small.