Mattis-- delightfully pathetic dialog, very good, thank you :) "Pathetic" referring not the writing, but to Holden's character :) RE: the FUQ's.... Yeah, some FUQs are certainly more enjoyable than others. I've had some pretty important FUQs in my day, in fact, while others were pretty terrible. The fact that they still were, indeed, FUQs, however, and could continue to be called by the name of FUQ, does not mean they really do all belong in the same class. The FUQs I mentioned were not by any means to be understood as being in the same class of FUQ proposed earlier. In other words, Mattis, you gave us a really good FUQ earlier. It was you, wasn't it? If not, I'll have to send the roses elsewhere.... (And now let's hear some good arguments for a heavily moderated list...) Camille-- Yeah, Nabokov's single most endearing quality to me is his abject hatred of Freudian Psychology :). But the book still read to me like a study in the psychology of desire--even if that study is written outside of the context of what was psychological theory in its day. I'd forgotten that Humbert Humbert denied he was trying to return to Anabelle, but I think he was being a bit idiotic in that regard. Placing the Anabelle account at the front of the book kinda BEGS the reader to make that assumption. It could be that an attempt to return to A was the source of his initial attraction to Lo, but that his attraction developed and grew wings of its own over time, and became a more significant factor in Humbert's mind than A. ever was. Jim ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]