I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-y…

J. D. Salinger
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it. ✨ Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.
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