Maybe you're confusing it with plays ... there is after all that thing Zooey says about getting sick of playwrights shoving down their silly curtains or whatever it is ... Salinger always seems to have a bit of an ambivalent relationship with acting and plays - after all, taking on the persona of a fictional person would have to be the highest form of phoniness ever, theoretically, but the Glasses, the theatrical parents especially, have always functioned as a locus of truth. > i always heard that salinger hated poetry... at least that thought lies in my > head, it may be a stray from some other memory. > > -stephen Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest