> There don't appear to be > too many Europeans on the list. So that I come to it feeling > something of an outsider well, there's myself in dublin... > > including my present home in Cork, Ireland. (As Thurber should > > have said: `We have O'Connors like other people have mice.') > > Ah ... my family is in Kerry, where the O'Connors (my father's entire side > still there) are everywhere you look. two friends of mine, hardcore dublin urbanites, went on a week long appropriation mission to amsterdam recently, where they met an american tourist. he asked them if they knew 'the murphys from galway'. i *know* there's only 3.6 million people in the country, but it's still difficult to meet and greet them *all*. :helena, feeling patriotic. and still in jest. i have no idea what my point is. ObSal: i got an email from brian fenton last week. he was interviewing for house sharers, and chose one particular guy because said guy's girlfriend had read f&z. this was a bad move. moral of the story: just because people read salinger it really means nothing in terms of well-balanced personality, ability to function in everyday life, control of psychotic impulses, that sort of thing. -- http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/4801/