At 8:17 PM -0500 on 12/21/1999, you wrote: >>How did a boy from Brooklyn get such smarts? > > fun bananafish facts: > > Me and Tim come from the same little Verrazano-prided piece of Brooklyn. We cover even more territory than that. I went to school out there, but I grew up way over near Prospect Park. We had lovely houses; you had more beautiful streets and avenues. Where is the Salinger reference? It's the sound of no reference clapping: I don't think JDS ever mentioned Brooklyn, at least in any of his well-known stories. --tim