Unexpected Salinger parallel today, courtesy of Norton Anthology of English Lit, 6th edition--apparently, James Joyce's wife, to whom he was devoted wholeheartedly, was an "uneducated Galway girl with no interest in literature" who charmed him with her "native vivacity and peasant wit." Seymour, the Artist as a Young Man? Interesting for me because Portrait is one of my all-time favorites. btw, can anyone advise as to if the looming and difficult reputations of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are justified? Or do they reach, as Norton suggests, a "point of diminishing returns" in that "the effort of both the author and reader is disproportionate?" (Personally found that assertion a little cocky and out of line...) -emily ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com