Re: a watching brief

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> > Hmmmmm.  I sort of think otherwise, or perhaps I missed the primness in
> > some message that passed through here.  Most of the reaction seems to
be
> > about the unlikely connection between a teenager and a 53-year-old man
--
> > an ironic situation, given Salinger's own response when his romantic
> > interest, Oona O'Neill, married Charlie Chaplin.  (Salinger made at
least
> > one acid remark in a letter about O'Neill's sudden marriage; I believe
it's
> > cited in Ian Hamilton's book.)

More than that ... he'd actually been dating Oona just before she went off
with Chaplin. And apparently he's never been a huge fan of Chaplin since
... I've heard that that letter makes nasty reading, and for once Hamilton
is right. It does.

I thought I'd hate Joyce Maynard at the beginning of this thread - but the
weird thing is, so far I don't. Strange.

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