> > I know how you've felt, about wanting to keep Salinger from the world...it happens > any time I take a literature class, and I have to listen to people talk nonsense > about Emily Dickinson or Sylvia Plath or some other perfect writer... > But I think you just gotta remember that these are not only vulnerable works but > they are also STRONG works... This reminds me of a course I took once (a seniou level college course, mind you) in which we were talking about To the Lighthouse and she said "But nothing happens." What can Virginia and I do but shake our heads? Susan