The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Much of Holden’s trek around the city takes place in the Upper West Side—at the Plaza Hotel, the Museum of Natural History and Central Park—and many of his descriptions of New York remain accurate to the way the city looks today.
From the book: “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”
My version: "New York. Land of the free, but are we really free? Surrounded by tall buildings full of workers sitting on their butts for a long amount of time in front of their computers. Then just outside—still busy—hundreds or even thousands of furious cars drive through the main streets of NYC combusting ton of carbon, which doesn't help to solve climate change by the way.
I live here, a local. I can see the lagoon in Central South Park while I was looking throughout my window—on the 24th floor to be exact—but I was wondering... If this lagoon froze over time when I've finished work, where would the ducks go? Ironically bodies of water are duck's natural habitat, so where would they go? I'm curious if someone comes from the city council and collect all of them to be somewhere safer or something, or if they just go away as a flock?"
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