That's beside the point. What we're talking about is a piece of literature, which precludes certain real life conditions. What's to say that this isn't Holden's diary? His voice being spoken out loud? His thoughts? A middle aged pseudo-Buddhist reliving his adolescence? I've always been a strong subscriber to only one theory: that Holden is talking to one person and one person only: us. That's all we can really be sure of. We're not eavesdropping; by picking up the book we have agreed to listen to Holden tell us his story. That's all. So *I* will have to respectfully disagree (: Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest Thor wrote: > I respectfully disagree. Can you really believe that he would bother to > write down that which he verbalized & was taken down verbatim for our > benefit? Come on, if Holden were real, he would get halfway down the second > page, say 'screw it' & take a walk weaing a jacket of slightly-inadequate > thickness. In reply to Matthew's: > >he was writing for therapy, talking to no one. > > > >mathew s.