>and I was thinking,"Is there something wrong with living your >whole >life with the youthfulness of Zooey?"That book is fiction.Isn't that a frame >of mind that we've all had?But we left it to stay in line.Couldn't you just >be >out of line and just be like that? that part of your post reminds me of a line in st. elmo's fire. rob lowe's character is talking to that chunky girl and saying "school was pretty out of hand...there's just no way to get out of hand in the real world..." (or something similar to that) similar sentiment.--matt