mintmonkey replied to your post: I just read a post saying that if salinger was...
what a bad joke this must be!
god, it’s like the key to release hell unto earth.
He glanced at the girl lying asleep on one of the twin beds. Then he went over to one of the pieces of luggage, opened it, and from under a pile of shorts and undershirts he took out an Ortgies calibre 7.65 automatic. He released the magazine, looked at it, then reinserted it. He cocked the piece. Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a blank towards his head. He glanced at his wife, now sitting upright after being startled awake. “It’s a metaphor,” said Seymour.













