Nick, I just wanted to add three other excellent sources for information. Sonny's webpage contains a JDS FAQ, as well as a link to Matt Kozusko's online FAQ, both of which deal with Seymour's death. Sonny's page is at: http://members.tripod.com/~SundeepDougal/jds.html And Matt's page is at: http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~mkozusko/jds/faq.html They're both excellent sources, and a great way of knowing what has been discussed here before, ad infinitum. And finally, there's the Bananaish Home page, with FAQs located at: http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/jds/stories/faq.html Hope this helps anyone looking for information. Regards, Cecilia. > On Monday, December 06, 1999 8:34 AM Tim O'Connor [oconnort@nyu.edu]wrote: > > 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 >