in woodlands library

with su-lin, after potato chunks and hot tea: found j.d. salinger's nine stories, which i picked up to confirm the answer to a question on an episode of jeopardy i had recently watched (character in the first story thinks it's a perfect day for this creature. what are bananafish? "jeopardy" is a hard word to spell.) out of curiosity, read the story, had rather bemused googly-eyed reaction to it, showed it to su-lin who also read it and was similarly stopped in her tracks. 'very 'o' level-like short story', i commented. 'like something from into the wind'. 'we did malgudi days' admitted su-lin. but i think everyone knows what i mean.