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To be a catcher in the rye

 "You know what I’d like to be? I mean if I had my goddam choice?... You know that song ‘If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye’... Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all." – The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)