"Like other American adolescent heroes, this youth seeks to express what we have all forgotten or denied in adulthood. Like Huck Finn, George Willard, Gene Gant, Nick Adams, and Holden Caulfield, he speaks in prose the poetry of emotion lying below the muted surface of life" pg.109, bio "kenneth patchen", by Larry R. Smith concerning the protagonist in patchen's only short story "bury them in god" 1939 _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com