IrishCYCO@aol.com wrote: > when reading joyce's character Stephen in Portrait of the artist > joe . . . The most intriguing Joyce/Salinger parallel I've ever noticed is between "The Dead" and "Uncle Wiggily." In many respects the same story. Consider especially the (conscious) echo of Joyce's phrase, "Poor Michael Fury," in Salinger's, "Pooer Uncle Wiggily." -- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu