I finished The Catcher in the Rye awhile ago. I thought it was a wonderful book, and it only got better at the end. J. D. Salinger has an extraordinary way with words, I think; despite his character's relatively small vocabulary he expresses himself very well, and a lot of his sentiments are ones I agree with.

"Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway."

I've also been reading some of T. S. Eliot's poetry. A lot of poetry is pretentious and lame, especially more modern stuff, but I think his is excellent. Especially "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock":

Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

I've been wanting to start a new game for a while (specifically for the new contest on GMG) but I'm having even more trouble than usual getting an idea that I can work from that is at least remotely original.

My brother and my sister-in-law go back to New Mexico tomorrow. I don't like that, but it's life, I guess. Bye.

EDIT: Also, while I'm on the subject of literature, I stumbled across an interesting signature on GMG:

"Everyone starts as but one small acorn, but it is that one small acorn that makes the most largest of rainforests."

If I ever see another copy of 1945 ill cut off your balls and force feed them to you in a cup with blood from your eyes.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty funny, especially the part about acorns turning into rainforests.