> Tim, I didn't know you could read RHTRC anyother way except straight through. You've never seen one of my days in action, where it seems to be 90% interruptions! 8-) > I have always been very intrigued by Charlotte. It seems as if she had a > very pivitol role in Buddy and Seymour's adolescent yet the character never > resurfaces later on. I have made an effort to look for her in nine stories, > but to no avail. Maybe she exists in all those manuscripts sitting in the > house in New England waiting for....what? The only place I recall is an oblique reference toward the end of "Seymour: An Introduction," when Buddy talks about a girl in his childhood, known as "Charlotte the Harlot" -- again, a suggestive and intriguing reference. --tim