Hey Will, can you expand on this a bit? I'm plenty interested, but I have to admit I have no idea what you're talking about. Is it an article, an essay? I'm too impatient to try to figure it out. But RHTRBC & Intro was my favorite book. Stories. Whatever. Thanks "In RHTRBC, Buddy complains that world doesn't see Seymour for the poet he is...Gary Lane, however, in "Seymour's Suicide Again: JD Salinger's 'APDFB'," does attempt to explain Seymour's bullet eating in terms of Rilke's Duino Elegies...nice piece of poetic logic though I don't buy into the idea that Salinger was reflecting Rilke since I think Seymour is more than Rilke's poems even though there are enough direct allusions to make the case. will" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com