{"id":"01KG078CMCS4W7PREKGHBQV66S","cid":"bafkreicmb5awiwtk34bmxkl2xrqsxpp2lu4t3rti2wykgj3douuf2xaxly","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2235,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:15:40.754Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":2191,"text":" 2098\t13\n 2099\tI walked all the way back to the hotel. Forty-one gorgeous blocks. I didn't do it\n 2100\tbecause I felt like walking or anything. It was more because I didn't feel like getting in\n\n\n 2101\tand out of another taxicab. Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way\n 2102\tyou get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or\n 2103\thow high up. When I was a kid, I used to walk all the way up to our apartment very\n 2104\tfrequently. Twelve stories.\n 2105\tYou wouldn't even have known it had snowed at all. There was hardly any snow\n 2106\ton the sidewalks. But it was freezing cold, and I took my red hunting hat out of my\n 2107\tpocket and put it on--I didn't give a damn how I looked. I even put the earlaps down. I\n 2108\twished I knew who'd swiped my gloves at Pencey, because my hands were freezing. Not\n 2109\tthat I'd have done much about it even if I had known. I'm one of these very yellow guys. I\n 2110\ttry not to show it, but I am. For instance, if I'd found out at Pencey who'd stolen my\n 2111\tgloves, I probably would've gone down to the crook's room and said, \"Okay. How 'bout\n 2112\thanding over those gloves?\" Then the crook that had stolen them probably would've said,\n 2113\this voice very innocent and all, \"What gloves?\" Then what I probably would've done, I'd\n 2114\thave gone in his closet and found the gloves somewhere. Hidden in his goddam galoshes\n 2115\tor something, for instance. I'd have taken them out and showed them to the guy and said,\n 2116\t\"I suppose these are your goddam gloves?\" Then the crook probably would've given me\n 2117\tthis very phony, innocent look, and said, \"I never saw those gloves before in my life. If\n 2118\tthey're yours, take 'em. I don't want the goddam things.\" Then I probably would've just\n 2119\tstood there for about five minutes. I'd have the damn gloves right in my hand and all, but\n 2120\tI'd feel I ought to sock the guy in the jaw or something--break his goddam jaw. Only, I\n 2121\twouldn't have the guts to do it. I'd just stand there, trying to look tough. What I might do,\n 2122\tI might say something very cutting and snotty, to rile him up--instead of socking him in\n 2123\tthe jaw. Anyway if I did say something very cutting and snotty, he'd probably get up and\n 2124\tcome over to me and say, \"Listen, Caulfield. Are you calling me a crook?\" Then, instead\n 2125\tof saying, \"You're goddam right I am, you dirty crooked bastard!\" all I probably would've\n 2126\tsaid would be, \"All I know is my goddam gloves were in your goddam galoshes.\" Right\n 2127\taway then, the guy would know for sure that I wasn't going to take a sock at him, and he\n 2128\tprobably would've said, \"Listen. Let's get this straight. Are you calling me a thief?\" Then\n 2129\tI probably would've said, \"Nobody's calling anybody a thief. All I know is my gloves\n 2130\twere in your goddam galoshes.\" It could go on like that for hours. Finally, though, I'd\n 2131\tleave his room without even taking a sock at him. I'd probably go down to the can and\n 2132\tsneak a cigarette and watch myself getting tough in the mirror. Anyway, that's what I\n 2133\tthought about the whole way back to the hotel. It's no fun to he yellow. Maybe I'm not all\n 2134\tyellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't\n 2135\tgive much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too\n 2136\tmuch when I lose something--it used to drive my mother crazy when I was a kid. Some\n 2137\tguys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I\n 2138\tlost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It\n 2139\treally isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody\n 2140\tin the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it. I'm just no good at it,","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725N1AW73BK692GT6CGC5","peer_label":"13","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:15:41.391Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:15:41.391Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}