Tim, hi! Precisely my thoughts on this about APDFBF and the Seymour/JDS of that story. I had been meaning to do a post on the lines of the following; but didn't ofcourse have anything even remotely close to the preceding story. (I almost said, "koan" -- that's what reading bf does to one!) >>I don't mean to discredit anything that has been said before on this >>topic, but just as in Zen the point is -- boom -- the cold slap of >>experience, sometimes in stories or in life, things don't happen for >>literary reasons. They simply happen, like the sound of one hand >>clapping, and you can take it or leave it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sundeep Dougal (Sonny, to friends), Holden Caulfield, New Delhi, INDIA http://www.thepentagon.com/holden