> Also, it's sweet that she never held it against > Seymour that he threw a rock at her just because she looked so perfect > standing there. That's a weird theme that seems to crop up a lot in Salinger. In one of his very early stories `The Long Debut of Lois Taggert', Lois' husband breaks her foot with a golf club, `loving her hugely' as he does it. Injuring the thing you love most ... very mysterious yet a theme strangely pertinent to him. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest