…[Our father] asked Seymour if he remembered the time Joe Jackson had given him, Seymour, a ride on the handle bars of his bicycle, all over the stage, around and around. Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going… said he wasn’t sure he had ever got off Joe Jackson’s beautiful bicycle.
-Seymour- An Introduction, J.D. Salinger
















