Re: Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes

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> From: James Chung <jcrotch@eden.rutgers.edu>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes
> Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 5:11 PM
> 
> I can't give any exact proof right now, mainly because I wasn't planning
> on asking this, but could the girl in the story somehow be Muriel?  Once
> again, I don't have the corresponding literature with me to back me up,
> but I remember something in Seymour: An Introduction.  Specifically, the
> last two poems before his death alluding to an affair or something else?
> 
  
  I think the fact that the man in S' poem was petting the cat with his
left hand shouts it out. This seems to be the most heavy handed of all the
allusions in Salinger's work. 

  I'll go back to practicing guitar now. I think everyone's better off that
way.
                   Robert Morris
                   winboog@gis.net

now playing-Frank Sinatra, September of My Years

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