Higher the rafters, carpenters. Simor: introduction

The "above rafters, carpenters", - quote from "Eppatlama", wedding songs of the ancient Greek poetess sapo.
On the wedding day of the main character, Simora Glass, his sister wrote a washcloth on the bathroom mirror: "above rafters, carpenters! Includes the groom like the astray, above the highest husbands.
Simor Glass - Senior of seven brothers and sisters. For those who are not familiar with him, this is a strange, unbalanced person. And only close to the other Simora - a philosopher, poet, a deep man and thinly feeling.
The story is imbued with the spirit of Zen Buddhism and Nonconformism and gives a lot to understand the Sallinger - one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century