RE: Teddy

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This, Camille, is truly delicious. 

Camille:
"It seems that Salinger has an inbuilt Phony Detector in many of 
his stories - in the form of the obvious answer and the not so obvious 
answer. It's as if he can separate his readership into the haves and have 
nots by seeing who chooses which option - to wit:

Franny is pregnant/Franny is undergoing a spiritual crisis
Seymour is a pedophile/Seymour is undergoing a spiritual crisis
Mr Antolini is a pedophile/Holden ... you get the picture
Teddy pushed Booper into the pool/Teddy himself dies in the pool, justifying

all he has just said."

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