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Supposedly in Cornish, if you asked anyone where he lived, they'd all claim to have no idea.

As for all these writers, I think he wanted to be left alone, so leave him alone.

I grew up in Cornish. Most of us knew. Our plumber was his plumber etc etc. he was left alone, there’s a lot of interesting art in the community to see, his house not being one of them.

The locals may have left him alone, but let's say 1% of the US population read the book and 1% of them decided to go have a look at him. That's still a person a day for 100 years.

Yeah I can’t understand how people rationalize harassing Salinger.

Maybe some percent of them are just testing out the Cornish solidarity thing.

I’ve been to some small towns in Montana that value discretion and isolation. I prefer it to a gaggle of consumers.

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