> I wish someone had warned me. However, as you can see, it's > now too late. Here I am marooned - like a drunk in a Marseilles > brothel - in the midst of these weird Yanks endlessly projecting > their quasi religious fantasies onto a modest body of work by one > of their minor 1950s writers. So why, if I may ask, are you here??? And I (as a humble Aussie, weird if you like but it's not my defining feature) believe that as far as Salinger's `quasi-religiousness' - it's something we're getting out of the work, not the other way around. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest