a little something on the Salinger Mailing List

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Tom Harberd wrote:
> difficult book.  But then later I read that people 
> were supposedly buying it only to leave on their 
> coffee-tables.  I find it hard to belive that people are 
> really this a)dumb b)free with their cash.  #15 for 
> coffee-table decoration?  Un-uh. 

Well let's see, I guess you're in your early 20s--wait till you're older
and more jaded, you won't find this hard to believe at all.  Just think,
for example, of suburbanite yups buying 4-wheel drive swamp buggies to go
to the office and the B&N. . . 

	Steve Maas