than his writing suggests another bit of code, or at least a set of clues. Wasn't this, after all, what [J.D.] Salinger was rejecting, a culture of celebrity in which the most important thing was appearance and no one cared about the level of the soul?"I just quit, that's all," Franny Glass tells her boyfriend early in "Franny and Zooey," explaining why she gave up acting. " . . . I don't know. It seemed like such poor taste, sort of, to want to act in the first place. I mean all the ego. And I used to hate myself so, when I was in a play, to be backstage after the play was over. All those egos running around feeling terribly charitable and warm."
from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: J.D. Salinger: a gift of words and silence
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