So we have found JD finally and he is at the North Eastern seaside,as someone had published and I read... All the Glass family stories are fantastic,but my favourite are 'Franny and Zooey', and 'A Perfect Day for the Banana Fish'.So sad,touching and magic. I also love some other bits of him more optimistic like 'The catcher...',obviously (especially when he speaks about Jane Gallagher and the summer they spent together , playing draughts)and one of the 'Nine stories' which title I cannot remember very well, it might be 'The war against the skimos'? About a girl who plays tennis every Saturday morning with other girl who never gives her change for the taxi, and that's why she meets incidentally this other's girl's brother who is a sort of geezer but absolutely charming. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was written by Alan Sillitoe, who together with the lately mentioned DH Lawrence are the glories of Nottinghamshire literature.The Loneliness...is a great book, too.I read when I was fourteen or so, and felt I had a lot in common with the bloke in it,though I had never been in a borstal and never managed to run more that 100 metres without disnea starting. Underwear note: Today, and this is not usual, that's why I post about it, I am wearing some stylish,dark blue,lacy , matching bra and knickers. Archel's remark about the difference between matching and not matching pairs is really clever.Womanhood (does this word exist?)could be split up between females wearing matching bra + knickers every day and the ones who currently don't (me ,for instance).Gwyneth Paltrow would be in the first group for sure, though I had never the chance to see her in her undies in any film. xxxooooxxxx Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+