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>Likewise the Glass stories can be seen as a series of jigsaw puzzle
>pieces whose gaps we must fill - or is it just like this because Salinger
>hasn't published the other puzzle pieces? Does Salinger want his
>works seen
>as `literary cubism'?

This is great! 
I thought about it in the following way - a multi - piece painting, each
piece indifferent to,  yet owing part of its existance to the others.
Magnificent in its own right ,but when aggregated, absolutely staggering.

(As I sit here staring at Picasso's rendering of the ambiguously shaped
"Nude Woman" in my office)

Dan

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