Why is Salinger so drawn to creating intelligent children and young people?

Why is Salinger so drawn to creating intelligent children and young people?

Not just in Catcher, but many of his short stories and novellas all feature children; usually intelligent, sometimes even brilliant.

Maybe he thought he was hot shit as a child and could never recreate the feeling in his own life once he got older.

Also why did he legitimately believe in fucking retarded bullshit like telekinesis?

Salinger is the Norman Rockwell of American literature,

Lots of intelligent people believe in telekenisis. Who knows, maybe they're onto something. Not for us to know for another few decades at least.

totally wrong

I think he just liked the idea that children weren't restricted by social/political hierarchies in the ways adults are, so he used children to show those limits.

"The perceptive, precocious intelligence of children"

>Why is Salinger so drawn to....children and young people

That's really fuckin' creepy

Aldous huxley believed in pseudo-science also (his occultish shit, the discredited method that helped his eyesight)