and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing-that is, I used to be. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. We guess that he's in California "resting up." Wonder exactly what kind of break-down/episode happened? Since Holden (or Salinger, depending on how you want to look at it) isn't entirely forthcoming, we have to look carefully at these hints about where Holden is now (when he's seventeen) telling us the story about where he was then (when he was sixteen, around Christmas). That isn't too far from this crumby place. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
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