welcome brendan! could very well be! well done! i just checked our homepage for banafish and in particular the serageant X page and the list does not mention a d.b. caulfield as someone who is *not* X. check it out at <http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/jds/characters/sergeantx.html> cya~randy > Hey, Friends-in-Salinger... > > I'm new to the list, so I'm probably rehashing a long-settled dispute, but I'd like > to introduce myself by introducing this idea: > > Couldn't Sergeant X be D.B. Caulfield? > He's a short story writer, like Sergeant X, and he was in the war...it seems a possibility > to me. > > I haven't located any of the underpublished stories, so all I know of D.B. I know > from Catcher. If there's anything in any other Caulfield stories that impugns this > idea, let me know. > > Thanks! > B. McKennedy > > > > Free web-based email, Forever, From anywhere! > http://www.mailexcite.com > >