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Hey! I just noticed something when I saw this quote: 

> "Everything everybody does is so -- I don't know -- not wrong,
>  or even mean, or even stupid necessarily.  But just so tiny
>  and meaningless and -- sad-making."   ("Franny" 26)

`Sad-making'. I am currently studying Evelyn Waugh's `Vile Bodies' in which
*all* the characters are always talking about things being `sick-making'
`shy-making' (in a way to deny their true feelings) and so on. The whole
novel is about people becoming robot-like and empty; playing on pretentions
of knowledge and/or wealth - it's kind of a Gatsby on acid, without the
profoundity. Does anyone else know the novel? Am I crazy to draw the
inference ???

Camille
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