You may not have to miss it scottie--she felt guilty enough about unfairly putting me down to agree to join bananafish but I tend to think she's too phony to keep her word... and to be honest, you got the gist of it but admittedly, only from my point of view and unlike ms. maynard, I don't claim to have truth or memory perfected, though I tried to honestly recollect and write as well as I could...today I wrote a review of her book though and was able to quote Salinger from it to make it clear that the book is solipsistic gossip and not much more...ok, ok, I'll stop now, will On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Scottie Bowman wrote: > > The scene with Joyce Maynard glaring wide-eyed at Will while > he fixes her through his Chinese lenses - the two of them snarling > over the bones of a long dead writer - is one I personally would > have travelled many miles to witness. > > Scottie B. >