Manhattan, New York City. 2015. Photo by Paul Goldfinger © Blogfinger.net. Click to enlarge.
“Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true.”
* 1940. From the movie Pinocchio. The song won an Oscar.
**Portnoy’s Complaint by Phillip Roth was published in 1969. Everyone I knew read it. It was a huge best seller. If you did read it, you will understand the photograph above.
BILLY JOEL
Stephen Goldfinger reminds us of another novel whose hero was a young prep school student with an interest in girls. That was Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Ryen (1951) by J. D. Salinger.