In a message dated 97-12-07 21:11:20 EST, malcolm@wolfenet.com writes: << Perhaps you'd like to share something with the list just as revealing so that "I" could judge your "cleverness," if in fact that's all you noticed or were paying attention to. Malcolm >> I wasn't paying attention to that at all.I was making a bit of a joke about when(I think Franny or maybe Boo Boo)says that one of Buddy's stories is "too clever."And Seymour says that(something like this)"Buddy's cleverness is his true quality and his voice and that it doesn't hurt anything at all."Your poem didn't have much to do with that exactly.I liked it.I just didn't want to tell you that it was beautiful or whatever when I wasn't really feeling like that.That's just what I thought of.