on thu 4 dec malcolm lawrence <malcolm@wolfenet.edu> wrote: > You'll also notice that when El tries to straighten out what she > perceives as Ramona's > "neurosis" (simply because she has an imaginary friend) and tries to > straighten her body's > position in bed that she grabs her by...her ankles. (Lots of ankles in > Salinger's stuff, > eh?) :-) when ballet dancers, centuries ago, shortened their gowns from floor length to just above their ankles, it was considered risque, revealing and highly sexual. -- :helena http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/4801/