Apparently Caulfield was still alive to write Salinger’s obit:
“There will never be another voice like his.” Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it’s just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.
Goddamn if The Onion didn’t nail it exactly, even if, I”m sure, a million crumby people thought of it with them.