Re: Obsessions to get things to brag about to others.....

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 15:12:02 -0600 (MDT)

I actually got the book as a gift though I happen to know it cost
$850.00...it was a gift from my in-laws honoring the completion of my
dissertation on Salinger.  If it helps to know, I spent plenty of rent
worrying months in 80's after stopping a lucrative business career to
teach and return to school.  Only since l991 have I earned more than most
poverty lines in most states, though not as much as when I stopped my
business career in l982.  But AK is right--I was boasting about
possessions and I accept his knuckle rap as well as thank those who came
to my defense, will