Me worried? Are you kidding, The Laughing Man is my favorite name in the whole wide world. In an Aspects of the Novel/E.M. Forster kind of way, the Laughing Man may not be the roundest of characters in the Salinger Kingdom of Narnia, but I really did relate to the coach/storyteller when I fist read it. Having the awful habit of lending away all the copies of my favorite books [the stupidest thing to do, according to a close friend of mine: either they don’t like (“understand”) it, which is sad, or they love it, and then you never get the book back – the latter is true for the most part, as far as my salinger-books are concerned], I haven’t read it in a while. But the image of the coach sitting in the bus, telling about the mysterious thief crossing the French-Chinese boarder, his hideous laughter roaming the countryside, has never really left me. Camille gave you the honorary title, “ Paul - The Davega bicycle giver whose name I can't remember.”, so I won’t even try to claim that. In my own mind, I’d like to be Zooey telling Franny about his Ginger Ale-meeting with Jesus, but you can’t have it all. I’m honored. /TLM >From: kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca (Paul Kennedy) >Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu >To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu >Subject: Re: letter to list >Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 18:28:41 -0400 (EDT) > >I believe, by the way, that The Laughing Man has named himself >appropriately.... > >(which is also a compliment, if anybody's worried about that sort of >thing....) > >Cheers, > >Paul > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com