Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye discussion

I wanted to write this sooner but i am just going to tell you something new that i had not noticed before.

Jane is
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Holden is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden

Which is a
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That made
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The DUKW (colloquially known as Duck)

Now Holden knew Jane before Stradlater
http://www.thestrad.com/

Holden gjves a metaphor of love making is like playing a violin.

Stradlater is an athlete. Why wasn't he down at the game. Why wasn't he in the game being pounded? Good question.

He borrowed Ed Bank-y car. It is a Buick a Buick is made by
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick

Buick, formally the Buick Motor Division /ˈbjuːᵻk/, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

Now after Holden kisses her allover. Feeling really sorry for her. She goes in and changes her clothes.

This is the part that i had notice before.

Can anyone tell me the description of her dress?

And what it reminds you of? I will be honest that it reminds me of two things and that one of those things explains why Holden calls the Revolutionary War cannon "that crazy cannon."

And what or who do you think Stadlater represents?
He is wearing Holdens jacket. What kind of jacket was it again?

I am reading Ulysses because i think that Salinger learned how to write two different "stories" simultaneous from him. It is kinda like looking at a Autostereogram:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autos...

Some people will see it but it takes time to retain your focus.

Anyway, I found an allusion to Jane Gallagher in Ulysses. I looked up Gallagher but i was never able to find anything connecting that name to WW2.

This week i think i found the connection.

Episode 10 (The Wandering Rocks) (25 pgs)

Father Conmee began to walk along the North Strand road and was saluted by Mr William Gallagher [literary reference used by Salinger, "Jane Gallenger] who stood in the doorway of his shop. Father Conmee saluted Mr William Gallagher and perceived the odours that came from baconflitches and ample cools of butter. [Was this where Bloom bought his kidneys?]He passed Grogan’s the tobacconist against which newsboards leaned and told of a dreadful catastrophe in New York. In America those things were continually happening. Unfortunate people to die like that, unprepared. Still, an act of perfect contrition.

General Slocum disaster
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"Boy, I nearly dropped dead when he said that. "Jane Gallagher," I said. I even got up from the washbowl when he said that. I damn near dropped dead." The Catcher in the Rye

All told, 1,021 perished out of the original 1,358 who boarded the ship that morning. And over and again bystanders described the unconscionable behavior of a private captain who was said to have watched the horror from the safety of a great white motor yacht without ever lifting a finger or launching a boat to assist in the rescues. "Kept His Yacht Back While Scores Perished: White Vessel's Captain Watched Slocum Horror Through Glasses," the Times headline stated.


From Ulysses:
Those farmers are always grumbling. I’ll just take a thimbleful of your best gin, Mr Crimmins. A small gin, sir. Yes, sir. Terrible affair that General Slocum explosion. Terrible, terrible! A thousand casualties. And heartrending scenes. Men trampling down women and children. Most brutal thing. What do they say was the cause? Spontaneous combustion: most scandalous revelation. Not a single lifeboat would float and the firehose all burst. What I can’t understand is how the inspectors ever allowed a boat like that…Now you are talking straight, Mr Crimmins. You know why? Palmoil. Is that a fact? Without a doubt. Well now, look at that. And America they say is the land of the free. I thought we were bad here. I smiled at him. America, I said, quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn’t that true? That’s a fact. Graft, my dear sir. Well, of course, where there’s money going there’s always someone to pick it up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graft... political corruption.

History of PALM OIL http://coconutoil.com/palm_oil_history/

The British Industrial Revolution created a demand for palm oil for candle making and as a lubricant for machinery. In the early nineteenth century, West African farmers began to supply a modest export trade, as well as producing palm oil for their own food needs. After 1900, European-run plantations were established in Central Africa and Southeast Asia, and the world trade in palm oil continued to grow slowly, reaching a level of 250,000 tonnes (metric tons) per annum by 1930 (Empire Marketing Board 1932: 117—23; Hartley 1988: 8—23; Lynn 1989: 227—31).

Meanwhile, the invention of the hydrogenation process for oils and fats in 1902 created the possibility of Western employment of palm products as, for example, in the making of margarine. Yet hydrogenation was more useful for liquid oils like groundnut, palm kernel, and coconut oils than for palm oil. After World War II, further improvements in palm oil refining technology and transport methods made it possible to use largely unhydrogenated palm oil in Western food products (Lim 1967: 130—2; Martin 1988: 45—8).

- See more at: http://coconutoil.com/palm_oil_histor...

"Throb always without you and the throb always within."
From:
The whirr of flapping leathern bands and hum of dynamos from the powerhouse urged Stephen to be on. Beingless beings. Stop! Throb always without you and the throb always within. Your heart you sing of. I between them. Where? Between two roaring worlds where they swirl, I. Shatter them, one and both. But stun myself too in the blow. Shatter me you who can. Bawd and butcher, were the words. I say! Not yet awhile. A look around.

From:
The Mettle of the Pasture
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From Page 232 Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List

Joyce quotes this book in a review he wrote: "without us and within us moves one universe that saves us or ruins us for its own purposes."


"Probably one reason that this passage stuck in Joyce's mind is that, in Allen's novel, it occurs immediately after Rowan Meredith's mother has tried to get him to agree to marry Isabel Conyers. Allen describes Rowan's reaction to his mother's imploring: 'No, no, no! He cried, cooking with emotion, Ah, mother, mother!' -and he gently disengaged himself from her arms"(p124) Rowan leaves and Mrs. Meredith immediately realizes that her childish wish that Rowan and Isabel should marry will never be fulfilled. Allen then says,

"we are reminded that our lives are not in
our keeping, and that whatsoever is to befall
us originates in sources beyond our power.
Our wills may indeed reach the length of our
arms or as far as our voices can penetrate
space ; but without us and within us moves
one universe that saves us or ruins us only
for its own purposes ; and we are no more
free amid its laws than the leaves of the for-
est are free to decide their own shapes and
season of unfolding, to order the showers
by which they are to be nourished and the
storms which shall scatter them at last. " (p125)

For me this is significant in reading a book. I imagine when Joyce read his book and came across this section it reminded him of his own union without engaging the church, or getting married. When i read it i didn't get that much from the text. I am woefully ignorant on The Mettle of the Pasture so the allusion was lost on me. I think it is these things that made Joyce remark that he Ulysses is full of Riddles.

For me this is significant because i discovered that Salinger used the same style of impregnating his text with meaning that would not be obvious except to the ones that wanted to study the allusion and literary references.

So when it comes to Gallagher to me this preceded the text that was important to Salinger. X marks the spot but you still have to dig.

Janes

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"The first USS La Salle (AP-102) of the United States Navy was the lead ship of her class of transport ships in use during the latter part of World War II."

"My mother didn't like her too much. I mean my mother always thought Jane and
her mother were sort of snubbing her or something when they didn't say hello. My
mother saw them in the village a lot, because Jane used to drive to market with her
mother in this LaSalle convertible they had. "

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