This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BE7510.66E89E40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello all! Have been listening in on you for a few weeks and decided to = join in. I suppose that I am jumping in to territory already = sufficiently covered by many but still I trudge on. I have just = finished Hapworth for the first real time and am going crazy on this end = to find out what people think. I am supposing that Salinger is = publishing it (re-publishing) to fill many of us in on little clues we = may not have gathered from his more accessible works. There are some = perfect references by Seymour about Buddy. Seymour has these fantastic = images of an older Buddy just off in the damned woods by himself = contently typing up manuscript after manuscript. And I cannot help for = the life of me to feel giddy as anything over the way a seven year old = Seymour talks about Buddy and uses some real grandiloquent tones. (This = makes me think of when I was a small child and just repeated the hell = out of any new word I thought to be "big" just for the sake of = exercising my vocabulary. Manufacturing context just to slip it in is so = nice.) Also, is it against the rules to offer to photocopy the story?=20 More soon. -Jake McHenry. seymour@supermanytime.com (supermanytime.) High Culture for Low Brows. www.supermanytime.com ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BE7510.66E89E40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">