That is what my story is about. Somewhere between the story, the book inside it, between Holden and you, somewhere in that dynamic … it’s about pain … it’s a message I can’t write out in words. A message that couldn’t ever be written out in simple lines, as if one person were explaining it to another. It’s a thing that emerges between the reader and the text, and it’s always changing, but it’s always about the same thing.”
