[There is so much to address here, and he's damn grateful they're not talking. He's damn grateful he's at work and can use that as a reason for him having to take his time as opposed to trying to figure out how to phrase it without giving away that he's been filled in on certain things.]
Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon (one of the Beatles), was found with a copy of The Catcher in the Rye the night he shot him. He had signed his name as the name of the main character in the book, Holden Caulfield. When they found him, he was reading it. He said the novel was his statement. He even sent something to a newspaper that urged everyone to read the book. That was 1980. In 1981, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. attempted to kill President Reagan. Do you know what book was found in his hotel room? You know why he did it? Hinckley Jr. was obsessed with an actress who had been in a movie involving a presidential assassination plot. He wanted to impress her.
It's your life, but your life includes other people. Should you be able to salvage something from what your father did? Yes you should. Of course you should. I personally do not like it but it is not my main concern if Freddie Lounds' book paints me in a bad light here. That's not why I protest. I protest because what's happened to you in the past with those other people that ties into everything I just told you. With you and some of those people stuck in a totally strange world where people can do just about anything without having to stop and think on it.
Which is not your fault in any way, Abigail. You want a book deal with Freddie Lounds that gets you money, fine. Send her to me. I've got stories that don't involve you in any way and you can have whatever monetary profits are made. I don't need it.
But don't open this door again, not here. You may not think you have anything to lose other than your ear and Freddie might not be able to see it either, but let me use some French here and call that complete bullshit.
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Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon (one of the Beatles), was found with a copy of The Catcher in the Rye the night he shot him. He had signed his name as the name of the main character in the book, Holden Caulfield. When they found him, he was reading it. He said the novel was his statement. He even sent something to a newspaper that urged everyone to read the book. That was 1980. In 1981, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. attempted to kill President Reagan. Do you know what book was found in his hotel room? You know why he did it? Hinckley Jr. was obsessed with an actress who had been in a movie involving a presidential assassination plot. He wanted to impress her.
It's your life, but your life includes other people. Should you be able to salvage something from what your father did? Yes you should. Of course you should. I personally do not like it but it is not my main concern if Freddie Lounds' book paints me in a bad light here. That's not why I protest. I protest because what's happened to you in the past with those other people that ties into everything I just told you. With you and some of those people stuck in a totally strange world where people can do just about anything without having to stop and think on it.
Which is not your fault in any way, Abigail. You want a book deal with Freddie Lounds that gets you money, fine. Send her to me. I've got stories that don't involve you in any way and you can have whatever monetary profits are made. I don't need it.
But don't open this door again, not here. You may not think you have anything to lose other than your ear and Freddie might not be able to see it either, but let me use some French here and call that complete bullshit.