Re: Uncle Wiggily

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Paul Janse wrote:
> In my opinion the only Salinger characters with a real sense of humour
are
> Holden and Zooey ("Zooey Grass? Norwegian chap? Sort of a heavyset, blond
> ath_").

> Or does my being a non-native speaker play a role here?

Good question. A lot of people would say, in the immortal words of the
Simpsons, that Salinger is increasingly `funny, but not ha-ha funny'. You
get the sense that there's a lot of little private jokes in there that
Salinger doesn't even want us to get. Maybe the examples you gave could be
classified as such.

Camille
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