Yes, I love For Esme: With Love and Squalor, and of that book A Perfect Day for Bananafish is my favourite too. I had a perfect Seymour crush when I was in my mid-to-late teens. I kind of equate him with Larry in Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, and it was on Seymour in particular that I focused when writing my dissertation - that he teaches the others 'the way of a pilgrim' and Franny might get screwed up because she's got it wrong in her head, as Zooey says, but they can find the right path again by following Seymour's wisdom.
Somewhere in a file I also have a copy of Hapworth 16, 1924 (photocopied out of the 1964 New Yorker) which is a short story about Buddy writing home from summer camp when he and Seymour are about 8-10 yrs old. You can find it here
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Date: 2004-11-18 06:12 pm (UTC)Somewhere in a file I also have a copy of Hapworth 16, 1924 (photocopied out of the 1964 New Yorker) which is a short story about Buddy writing home from summer camp when he and Seymour are about 8-10 yrs old. You can find it here
Hapworth 16, 1924