Hal, Every once in a while, I see subtle hints that some think only scholars, with degrees absolute, should count as authority. When I was a very young grad student, I went to the first Mark Twain Circle meeting in New Orleans and gushed over Justin Kaplan's book. One of the august, who shall remain nameless, responded, "Oh he's just a biographer. He's not a scholar." I have a Harlen Ellison record on which he excoriates a MIT audience who booed the name of Carl Sagan. For them Sagan was just a popularizer of science, and Ellison thought this was great. "He's a nifty guy," Ellison said, "providing a real service for folks who aren't coming to MIT." We scholars are an interesting breed. I remember a newspaper account on a humor conference in which the reporter was startled that, during the run of the conference, no one laughed. The seminars were detailed, foot-noted, and eminently publishable. But no one laughed. So why call it humor? I wonder if God created scholars because he was disappointed in administrators.