>>It was in response to a post in which someone using the pseudonym `ecas' asked for advice on how best to restrain his ego. I assumed this was a tease - since in a list devoted to the creator of Holden Caulfield - I could not seriously imagine it to be anything other. << ecas stands for Eryk Charles Arthur Salvaggio. And yes, this is a list about Salinger, whose works were the best combination of eastern literature and western philosophies that I had ever come across. I don't see why you would see that post as being so strange? -ecas