{"id":"01KG6FVEM8JZKAXZZBRF8GTHMJ","cid":"bafkreigwnu5gxn5gjwacozm52kipgeajw3dojatgzm7nt7wu2ifg77oqf4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4578,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T03:41:20.747Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG6FT59BXAZ3C5HRJ6SW8F58","start_line":4525,"text":"24\nMr. and Mrs. Antolini had this very swanky apartment over on Sutton Place, with\ntwo steps that you go down to get in the living room, and a bar and all. I'd been there\nquite a few times, because after I left Elkton Hills Mr. Antoilni came up to our house for\ndinner quite frequently to find out how I was getting along. He wasn't married then. Then\nwhen he got married, I used to play tennis with he and Mrs. Antolini quite frequently, out\nat the West Side Tennis Club, in Forest Hills, Long Island. Mrs. Antolini, belonged there.\nShe was lousy with dough. She was about sixty years older than Mr. Antolini, but they\nseemed to get along quite well. For one thing, they were both very intellectual, especially\nMr. Antolini except that he was more witty than intellectual when you were with him,\nsort of like D.B. Mrs. Antolini was mostly serious. She had asthma pretty bad. They both\nread all D.B.'s stories--Mrs. Antolini, too--and when D.B. went to Hollywood, Mr.\nAntolini phoned him up and told him not to go. He went anyway, though. Mr. Antolini\nsaid that anybody that could write like D.B. had no business going out to Hollywood.\nThat's exactly what I said, practically.\nI would have walked down to their house, because I didn't want to spend any of\nPhoebe's Christmas dough that I didn't have to, but I felt funny when I got outside. Sort of\ndizzy. So I took a cab. I didn't want to, but I did. I had a helluva time even finding a cab.\n\n\nOld Mr. Antolini answered the door when I rang the bell--after the elevator boy\nfinally let me up, the bastard. He had on his bathrobe and slippers, and he had a highball\nin one hand. He was a pretty sophisticated guy, and he was a pretty heavy drinker.\n\"Holden, m'boy!\" he said. \"My God, he's grown another twenty inches. Fine to see you.\"\n\"How are you, Mr. Antolini? How's Mrs. Antolini?\"\n\"We're both just dandy. Let's have that coat.\" He took my coat off me and hung it\nup. \"I expected to see a day-old infant in your arms. Nowhere to turn. Snowflakes in your\neyelashes.\" He's a very witty guy sometimes. He turned around and yelled out to the\nkitchen, \"Lillian! How's the coffee coming?\" Lillian was Mrs. Antolini's first name.\n\"It's all ready,\" she yelled back. \"Is that Holden? Hello, Holden!\"\n\"Hello, Mrs. Antolini!\"\nYou were always yelling when you were there. That's because the both of them\nwere never in the same room at the same time. It was sort of funny.\n\"Sit down, Holden,\" Mr. Antolini said. You could tell he was a little oiled up. The\nroom looked like they'd just had a party. Glasses were all over the place, and dishes with\npeanuts in them. \"Excuse the appearance of the place,\" he said. \"We've been entertaining\nsome Buffalo friends of Mrs. Antolini's . . . Some buffaloes, as a matter of fact.\"\nI laughed, and Mrs. Antolini yelled something in to me from the kitchen, but I\ncouldn't hear her. \"What'd she say?\" I asked Mr. Antolini.\n\"She said not to look at her when she comes in. She just arose from the sack.\nHave a cigarette. Are you smoking now?\"\n\"Thanks,\" I said. I took a cigarette from the box he offered me. \"Just once in a\nwhile. I'm a moderate smoker.\"\n\"I'll bet you are,\" he said. He gave me a light from this big lighter off the table.\n\"So. You and Pencey are no longer one,\" he said. He always said things that way.\nSometimes it amused me a lot and sometimes it didn't. He sort of did it a little bit too\nmuch. I don't mean he wasn't witty or anything--he was--but sometimes it gets on your\nnerves when somebody's always saying things like \"So you and Pencey are no longer\none.\" D.B. does it too much sometimes, too.\n\"What was the trouble?\" Mr. Antolini asked me. \"How'd you do in English? I'll\nshow you the door in short order if you flunked English, you little ace composition\nwriter.\"\n\"Oh, I passed English all right. It was mostly literature, though. I only wrote about\ntwo compositions the whole term,\" I said. \"I flunked Oral Expression, though. They had","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6FV1MXNCHEX34S4KJ8SSPS","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6FT59BXAZ3C5HRJ6SW8F58","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KFF1K6A8V452X8SQKY55DD16","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6FVEM8ZQXZ6F9N53W9F371","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T03:41:20.904Z","ts":"2026-01-30T03:41:32.279Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}