well, I've just finished reading De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period and I have a question I would like answered: who is Peter Abelard? I can't get a fix on what Salinger could mean here... Could he mean: (a) a James Bond type of smootherooney? (I love JB) or (b) a loner like the biker in Raising Arizona who'll risk life and limb (usually other people's) to get the girl or (c) a Fun Bobby type of spit-shooter from Friends or (d) a Jean-Claude Van Damme type of walnut-cracking-buttock-muscles individual (not too dissimilar to your gentle writer, dear readers) or (e) a Marlon Brando in Last Tango In Paris sort of shorn fingernails type or (f) a Goldmund type who will be a smootherooney like (a) but will do it German hence making it appear more meaningful and tragic. This is actually meant as a serious question so I expect some quality mastication-time spent on this. You at the back! Take your hands out of your pockets! the thick plottens, -- your callipygean correspondent, Brian fentonb@mathds1.ul.ie UIN = 1786973 VENEER homepage: http://mathds1.ul.ie:8080/~fentonb/index.html "though we were in zero gravity, it pulled us closer..." Flaming Lips