The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

J. D. Salinger: For Esme with Love and Squalor, Raise High the Roof Beam, Seymour: An Introduction

  1. Review

  2. Recurring Characters

  3. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour—An Introduction by J. D. Salinger

  4. For Esme—With Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger

  5. Salinger, the Master

  6. The Beginning

  7. The Laughing Man

  8. Gushing

  9. A Clever Narrator

  10. Goodbye