'F--- You' Signs

Holden wonders around his old school after leaving a note to Phoebe and finds the words 'fuck you' written on the walls. Depressed he then wanders to the museum and finds there in the hall leading to the mummies the filthy words staining the wall. Angry, he muses that someone will probably write these words on his tombstone. This is the last straw and Holden's last stand in defending innocence. He cannot fathom why someone would put these words where kids would see them and in turn imitate them. 


"It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them--all cockeyed, naturally--what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it."


"If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the 'fuck you' signs in the world. It's impossible."