Nope -- sorry, but this apparently really happened! see Louis Budd, _MT: Social Critic_, pp. 269 ff. Please help me by answering this question about the Person Sitting in >Darkness. When MT mentions that Catholic missionaries collected money for >Catholic deaths during the Boxer Rebellion , and demanded 680 heads for 680 >Catholics murdered , isn't this strictly fiction even though MT mentions a >specific location in China where this was allegedly to have taken place ? >Perhaps he mentioned heads in a figurative sense? Please help Herm >Schloss, Tucson, AZ e mail [log in to unmask] **=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=** Dr. Harold K. Bush Assistant Professor Dept. of English Saint Louis University 221 N. Grand Blvd. Saint Louis, MO 63103 314-977-3631; fax 314-977-1514; home 314-861-3929