Doesn’t it make you feel lousy to steal somebody else’s stuff without them even giving you permission to use it? People always do things like that, and nobody stops them. People are crumby. They really are.

“The New Times’ Art Beat blog has been covering J.D. Salinger’s attempt to prevent an alleged sequel to his famous “Catcher in the Rye” from being sold in the U.S. The book in question, “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye”, was written by the Swede Fredrik Colting under the pen name J.D. California.

Colting’s lawyers are calling “60 Years Later” both a sequel and a parody—both are legal ways of using another’s work in conjunction with your own. But the courts are calling it plagiarism and thus far Salinger is succeeding at keeping the book off American shelves.”

“Sequel” to Catcher in the Rye Banned — Big Think.

So how was my Holden impression, above? Not too lousy? Anyway …

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6