On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 08:10:40PM -0600, Nick Martin wrote: > I, Nick Martin, am a high school junior who chose J.D. Salinger as my author > for a biographical analysis, a literary criticism, a term paper, and a > written interpretation, all under the heading of a year-long research > project on American Authors. Greetings and welcome, Nick! You might find that going through our archive, which is at http://www.nyu.edu/acf/staff/oconnort/JDS/ and is current through October (I've been a slight bit sick and haven't gotten around to putting up November yet) is a good way to get background information on the last couple of years' traffic. You can do a search there and find lots of buried nuggets.... And of course people here may reply to your query, but it's something we've talked about endlessly. I daresay that there's more text, by word count, in the archive, about that story, than there are words in the story! --tim o'connor