a 1904 photograph by Edward Curtis
“If you really want to hear about it,
the first thing you’ll probably want to know is
where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like,
and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me,
and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like
going into it, if you want to know the truth.“
– J.D. Salinger,
from the opening of
The Catcher in the Rye