<I apologize if my reply is a little late and perhaps this point has already been mentioned since I've got loads of unread mail (most of which being from Bananafish) and am only up to Scottie Bowman's "a thought". But I resent that Vanity Fair as well as some people on this mailing list is comparing Salinger's (alleged) consensual, as well as legal relationship with an adult woman to Nabocov's character's raping of a minor. Completely different situations.> I'm not so sure I'd call it rape. Misty but look at Faulkner, he not only said the same thing over and over but he said the same place --Charles Bukowski