> So, for instance, readers for the next six hundred years will understand > (interact with emotionally and intellectualy? feel a personal bond > with?) _Franny and Zooey_, but possibly not _Gatsby_? Peruvian field > workers in 2010 will step gingerly over discarded copies of the Viking > _Beat Reader_ on their way to lunch break, where they will tear eagerly > through the pages of "D-D Smith"? Good point, but then again, the average person knows pretty much nil about passados, punto reversos and Elizabethan folk lore but `Romeo + Juliet' was still a hit 400 years after its initial release. I think certain things, certain feelings and human traits will never be eroded by time. I never found the fact that TCIR was set in the early 1950's detracted from my enjoyment of it, even though in a way that time and place is almost as alien to me as is Elizabethan England. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest