In a message dated 11/3/99 8:07:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, wh14@is9.nyu.edu writes: << This list is almost getting rude! So I'm wondering, of all the salinger fiction, where is the behavior of characters most rude? Gedsuski in TLM? The gray haired man in PMAGME? William Jameson Jr. of TYF? Post your vote for the rudest SAlinger moment but please, fiction only! will >> Oh come on. Ok. It has to be Zooey. For him it's not so much a moment as a sustained attitude...better to go in search of an unrude moment :) Jim