thanks to everyone who offered their ideas on what book would be best to start out reading salinger with. i decided that if there was any book that this particular young fella *needed* to read it was franny and zooey. but to tell you the truth, he's so far up his own ass, he's beyond salvation. however, i made him a mixtape instead. track listing available on request. it's becoming clear that i am just a *mecca* for the type of deluded atristes who make crappy 'symbolic' sculptures out of clay and candlewax, and write dodgy, badly-spelled poetry that means *nothing*, and talk about unhappiness, and aching, and all the things that everybody feels, as though *they* were the only person to ever suffer. diddums. there are *far* too many of these boys circulating. and they all seem to gravitate towards me. i'm sick of playing nursie to 'wounded' pathetic weasels. from now on it's rugby players and tech geeks and cheery, 'up' people for me. and if anyone dares to mention art to me, they will die atop a bonfire of crumpled up refill pad pages and sketches of hearts dripping with blood. et cetera. :helena -- (((((((((((((hork productions))))))))))))) @ http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/4801/