life is a gift horse.
j. d. salinger is 90 years old and somewhere hiding in his house in rural new hampshire, usa. unfortunately he hasn’t written anything new for decades. i highly doubt he will write something new, now being 90 and all.
but just for the novel “the catcher in the rye” and the short story “teddy” i’m forever grateful that he has written it; before he started shutting himself away from the limelight and began with the cocooning. “teddy” is typical salinger and it’s thirty pages full of beauty, deep philosophy, buddhism and poetry. i’m wondering why he wasn’t awarded with the nobel prize for literature yet. it’s about damn time - considering his age!
another guy who never got what he deserves, was stanley kubrick. he never won an academy award for best director or best picture. this is outrageous, because he should have won at least one award for the monkey scene in 2001 - a space odyssey, where the ape is looking out of pure curiosity at bones. and then - B A N G - strauss’s “thus spoke zarathustra” plays in the background and suddendly the ape is picking up a bone and thrashs everything around him. this is one of the finest moments in modern film history. if not t h e finest. the scene is powerful, because it’s a defining moment. and kubrick was snubbed. it’s un-fucking-believable!