'... have i joined the wrong list? this is the salinger discussion ring, correct?...' No, cusackfilm, wrong. This is Bananafish, a mailing list intended for the discussion of the works of J.D.Salinger. Unfortunately, those works are so meagre & the thoughts contained in them so hackneyed that we'd all rather discuss anything BUT them. Lunacy, pop music, Nabakov, the impending third world war, my time in high school, God in his various manifestations, ANYTHNG.... But, as ever. Why don't YOU (preferably observing the usual conventions regarding upper case & punctuation- perhaps even letting us know your name while you're about it)lead us out of our morass with some original thoughts of your own? Scottie B.