then those who don't wish to read it can delete it. please post this, for the sake of the continuation literary intelluctuality. as far as i can tell, the analyis was acurate and completly plausible. ~randy > i disagreed with this the first time it was posted, and i disagree with > it now. the only reason i didn't say anything about it before is that my > explanation of why i don't believe it is so long i wouldn't post it here, > and on this list it's not easy to get away with making statements you > can't back up. however, since it has come up again i might as well throw > it out there. this exact description of seymour's demise does happen > more often than not i'm afraid. but i'm not disagreeing with this as a > possible analyzation of the story - it's may or may not be salinger's > reasoning. i'm disagreeing with it as an analyzation of life. and i > don't remember who originally posted this idea, so if god forbid it was > the same person who wrote about raging against the dying of the light, > PLEASE know that this is nothing personal. so, yet again, i am > expressing my cognitive dissidence and opening myself up for friendly > attack, bananafish style, with the hopes we don't drive anyone nuts going > back and forth about it. i love to hear everyone's opinions and > exchanges of them, but for just this once, i'm hoping i can slip this one > in unnoticed. > >