Scottie Bowman wrote: > However that may be, can you, Camille, in all sincerity envisage > Salinger in some similar situation saying to his editor in > the New Yorker: `The Pitcher full of Cry, eh ? By golly that's much > better, old buddy. That's the one we'll use....' ? Or Hemingway > agreeing that A Farewell to Arms would be more touching with > a bouncing baby & a lump-in-the-throat ending ? _The Catcher in the Rye_, of course, turns on just such a mis-hearing. The difference between Burns's *meeting* a body and Holden's *catching* a body is all the world. It's the metaphor at the heart of the book. And there's a curious circle in this discussion for fans of Mr. Stipe--or "AE" as he's known in these parts, after George Russel of Dublin fame: Burns also wrote a poem called "Green grow the rashes," which I believe is the source for REM's "Green Grow the Rushes." -- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu