This morning, a colleague tossed a notion my way I thought I'd share.

As my buddy teaches HF far more than I, although he is a generalist and no
"scholar,"  I often forward him posts from this list related to items I
think he'd be interested in.  By far, the largest flurry of such forwards
has been our collective responses to the Burn's film which he found very
enlightening and sometimes poignant, especially Sandra Bradley's posts.

Anyway, he suggested to me the collected e-mails we've generated on the
subject is an interesting statement about who we, the Twainians, are.   He
thought I should write up something on our discussion, an in-depth article
on how all these thoughts sum up the eclectic and very personal viewpoints
of this community and , in a sense, define it.  I replied he'd be the better
author as he's outside the group and would have a clearer approach to the
subject. As he said, what we've written often says much more about us than
Twain.

Well, I thought his thought was worth some mulling so I offer the mull to
y'all.