In what aspects do you feel that Twain is somewhat "salingeresque?" Sarah > Well now here's yer problem, Erin: > > "But my passion is for movies and Salinger." > > The Universal book explicitly says not to mention movies. Next time you > want to go to a movie, find > a good production of _Hamlet_, instead--preferably one with a dog. > > After you've exhausted Salinger, you might try Nabokov's _Lolita_ or > John Kennedy Toole's _Confederacy of Dunces_ or something by Mark Twain > or even Oscar Wilde, all of which have a delightful air of > urbanity to their prose and sometimes even the odd Salingeresque > moment. > > -- > Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu >