Did anyone else learn the word "squalor" from the title of the J. D. Salinger story?

[fflo]

I scratched my head; I looked it up; I scratched my head some more.

I took it in metaphorically before I took it in the other way.

Now I have multiple squalors in me whenever I alight on one.

It's an insanely perfect-sounding word for itself.

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[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i think i learned it from some english short story. can't remember which one. also learned 'disrepair' then.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

On family camping trips, my dad described our living conditions as "indolent squalor"