it's these little things they can pull you under // live your life filled with joy and wonder [nica]
Holden Caulfield is having a shitty time. Or a crummy time, as he would say, but more often than not St. John makes this helpful substitution, for the benefit of his unconscious girlfriend - Wanda says she's asleep, he's trying hard not to think of it has a coma, but of course that word crops back up again and again every time he stops trying -
If you don't wake up -
He can never finish, so they start a new chapter.
(He thinks once, he heard her breathing with him, short and tandem and slow, with and over and under and through the words, but like a lapsed Catholic, he's forgotten how to believe.)
"And then Holden says, he says don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." He stops and he looks at her, touches her hair with something like determination. Wake up now. "You know, I got this fucking book for you. The least you could do is talk about it with me."
...yeah, that should snap her right out of it, honey.
If you don't wake up -
He can never finish, so they start a new chapter.
(He thinks once, he heard her breathing with him, short and tandem and slow, with and over and under and through the words, but like a lapsed Catholic, he's forgotten how to believe.)
"And then Holden says, he says don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." He stops and he looks at her, touches her hair with something like determination. Wake up now. "You know, I got this fucking book for you. The least you could do is talk about it with me."
...yeah, that should snap her right out of it, honey.