Re: Raincoats

don't know about raincoats but that quote from
sandwich sorta sounds like jd's complaint when the 22
stories were published:

Some stories, my property, have been stolen," Mr.
Salinger said. "Someone's appropriated them. It's an
illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you
liked and somebody went into your closet and stole it.

--kim

--- Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
> There are only two mentions of raincoats in
> Salinger's 22 uncollected stories. Am I missing any
> from the widely released stories?
>
> From THIS SANDWICH HAS NO MAYONNAISE
> I feel my elbow getting wet and bring it in out of
> the downpour. Who swiped my raincoat? With all my
> letters in the left-hand pocket. My letters from
> Red, from Phoebe, from Holden. From Holden. Aw,
> listen, I don't care about the raincoat being
> swiped, but how about leaving my letters alone?
> He's only nineteen years old, my brother is, and the
> dope can't reduce a thing to a humour, kill it off
> with a sarcasm, can't do anything but listen
> hectically to the maladjusted little apparatus he
> wears for a heart. My missing-in-action brother.
> Why don't they leave people's raincoats alone?
>
> FROM HAPWORTH 16, 1924
> Please send anything interesting on human
> civilization well before the Greeks, although quite
> after the list of civilizations in the pocket of my
> former raincoat with the unfortunate gash in the
> shoulder, which Walt humorously declined to wear in
> public.
>
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Received on Fri Jun 13 14:50:17 2003