]> 2) If we view Buddy as a real person, writing about the Glass family (which > of course he isn't but Salinger wants us to so I'll indulge him...) and he > wrote "...Bananafish", how could he possibly have known about what Seymour > said on the beach and what else he did, when Buddy himself obviously wasn't > there (of course, one explanation is that other characters from the story told > him about Seymour's actions and words, but the way the story is written it > doesn't appear to be a second (or maybe third, whatever) hand account)? maybe i'm misremembering, but i thought buddy explained his writing of the story about seymour's suicide, and how the seymour in that story isn't really seymour, but buddy. a lot of questions that get asked on this list are actually answered or at least kinda vaguely in a roundabout way discussed in Seymour: An Introduction. i don't have time, and i don't have a copy of the book so your on your own with the hundreds of other listers for finding the seymour as buddy reference. merry little lamb, F. White A'Snow _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com