It was a day, God knows, not only of rampant signs and symbols, but of wildly extensive communication via the written word. If you jumped into crowded cars, Fate took circuitous pains, before you did any jumping, that you had a pad and pencil with you, just in case one of your fellow passengers is a deaf-mute. If you slipped into bathrooms, you did well to look up to see if there were any little messages, faintly apocalyptic or otherwise, posted high over the washbowl.
J.D. Salinger’s Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters











