Re: Quiet list? there's always
Cheryl Cline (ccline@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:42:38 -0700
StupiesCuz@aol.com wrote:
>
> "...I grew six and a half inches last year. That's also how I
> practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and
> stuff..."
>
> Consider an average 16 year old - they grow, that's what they are supposed to
> do. Six inches or not, but they grow. I, personally, didn't catch that
> sentence as a relevant fact of some physiological problem. Checkups, checkups,
> we all have them.
>
> -Olga-
Of course, the growing is normal; I don't think it's a physiological
problem. I just think it indicates that Holden was growing up very
quickly physically, although he wanted to hold onto childhood mentally.
Cheryl