Salinger, Lennon, Browning
On this day in 1980 Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon outside his New York City apartment building. There are two books by him (In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works), and many about him, but the book which will forever be associated with Lennon is The Catcher in the Rye.
At the trial, he killed because he was too Holden, his pre-sentence statement being a reading aloud of the passage from the text which begins, "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all...." And months afterwards Chapman was happily handing out autographed copies of the book from the supply he kept in his cell.
last week four bidders met the half-million dollar asking price for the "Double Fantasy" album which Lennon autographed for Chapman just hours before being shot. This was found on the ground at the murder scene, and as it was used in evidence at Chapman's trial, it boasts his "forensically enhanced" fingerprints. |
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