Folks; I apologize for the multiple messages you may have received. I am trying to master a new e-mail software, and it has a mind of its own. It is highly imaginative. It will often do strange and wonderful things with my e-mail, for no apparent reason. This software should perhaps enroll in one of our leading creative writing programs. We can only await the hereafter to imagine what Mark Twain might have to say of such things. In any case, I remain eternally hopeful that the electronic fates have smiled upon my genuinely benign efforts and have agreed to deliver to one and all the multiply-mentioned call for papers: if not, I have decided hereafter not to give a darn. best to you, --HB