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	This morning on the Trollope list - also gone `suddenly very quiet' 
	- a wag living in Australia (no, not you-know-who...) suggests 
	it must be because everyone in America has become mesmerised 
	by the `boy wonder's exploits on & off the battlefield...'

	Another correspondent writing from within the Washington beltway 
	explains that everyone there is too busy filling sandbags to protect 
	their estates against the reprisals that are `bound to come...'

	I presume the same explanation applies to Bananafish.

	From time to time a ripple of laughter spreads across Europe 
	at the news of some indomitable American hero (Sylvester...Clint...) 
	cancelling trips in the face of bomb threats.  And recent exchanges 
	here have certainly illustrated the new, deeply eirenic strain in 
	the American psyche. 

	But I do urge my transatlantic cousins to be of good cheer.  
	Lift up your hearts.  Look towards higher things.  Become 
	non-attached. Remember all those Buddhist insights.  No one 
	lives forever, you know.

	Scottie B.

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