I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one th… - J. D. Salinger

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I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.