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But like Holden, Binx has had specific, terrible things happen to him, a fact that sometimes gets lost amid the abstractions. His brother dies on the first page. His father essentially commits suicide by enlistment. And Binx’s Korean War wound is a turning point in his life: regaining consciousness under a chindolea bush, he sees, six inches from his nose, a dung beetle scratching in the leaves. “As I watched, there awoke in me an immense curiosity. I was onto something. I vowed that if I ever got out of this fix, I would pursue the search.”
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