Tim tells us he cringes to confess he's never read A.A.Milne. In England, by & large, we cringe to confess we *have* - & try to blame it on careless guardians of our childhood. (Remember Dorothy Parker's Tonstant Weeder ?) I can't speak for Pynchon (who is to me what Milne is to Tim) but surely people like Blake & Swift (& innumerable writers of those periods) used capitals in what was then the straightforward convention of the time & not - as seems to be case with Milne & Salinger - to achieve a rather deliberate, contrived effect. I know I'm not adding to my popularity by saying so, but no one seems willing to question if Salinger may occasionally be mistaken in his mannerisms. It's understandable that a Salinger list should attract Salinger enthusiasts but isn't it permissible occasionally to question some of the great man's habits ? Personally, I find his use of upper case in the way we're presently discussing one of the things that put my teeth on edge. It seems so ARCH. Boredom quickly settles in, no doubt, when I return yet again to lower case sentences, but I wonder why no one seemed to notice when I pointed out that Salinger himself warned against `Cubism' in writing & that one should follow one's modest, lower-middle-class instincts ? Whatever about Dylan's honesty condoning unorthodoxy, it seems to be the case, sadly, that the more restrictions an artist places on himself - whether rules of scansion or rhyme or grammar or whatever - the cleaner, leaner & more enduring the final product. Scottie B.