I have never found Salionger's style 'dry', matter-of -fact', 'unornamented' or what you would like to call it. ln my opinion he is a very careful stylist, something I would not say of Hemingway (as far as I= know him). Although Salinger's style is not 'baroque' like Nabokov's, it has a definite exquisite flavor of its own. I took a completely random sample from F&Z, and blindly picked the sentence "Zooey frowned, but academically". By whom else could this have been written but Salinger? Paul Janse