Re: Pynchon recommendations?

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On Aug 11,  2:11, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
> Subject: Re: Pynchon recommendations?
> > 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.

Oh no, not the foot thing again!

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