While They'll Say Anything And/Or Do Anything (To Be "Spiritual") You'll Get To Only Go Away

"Fast-forward 15 years to the next letter, which appears to have been sent in October 1966,...in September of that year, [J.D. Salinger's] wife, Claire, filed for divorce, claiming in court papers that continuation of the marriage would 'seriously injure her health and endanger her reason.'"

-- Alison Leigh Cowan, giving us this bizarre aside, in a fawning article about the late writer's private letters - with no comment or investigation of what life with a weirdo believer does to a normal person - because few care if their insane ideas drive others as bonkers as they are, especially anyone working at The New York Times.

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"[Third "wife", Joyce] Maynard described Salinger, who had been influenced by Zen Buddhism and Hinduism, as consumed with yoga, meditation, and a strict diet of whole grains and vegetables. She also said he could be 'moody and cranky' and critical of her 'worldly' habits, including her desire to publish and give interviews.

In 2000, Salinger’s estranged daughter Margaret wrote the memoir 'Dream Catcher.' In it, she described a neurotic father obsessed with health fads, including homeopathy and the drinking of his own urine."

-- Nancy Moran, on J.D. Salinger, the now-deceased literary wackjob icon of the '60s - who (as also evidenced by "Catcher In The Rye") appears to have been really onto something - like how to be humiliated in death, here, and kinda in the pages of BusinessWeek.

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