I am a member of the Ong Project here in my dept. at SLU, where Fr. Ong was longtime chair, former president of MLA, and where he still occasionally shows up (he still lives here on campus). Fr. Ong probably deserves a little more attention as premiere theorist of literature and communications. His impact is quite interdisciplinary, affecting diverse areas such as media, the medical professions, and computer theory. His unpublished correspondence, which to my knowledge nobody has ever tried to document, is known to include many of the 20th-century's great intellectuals, such as Marshall McLuhan, who was here in St. Louis for a while. To take a look at our just beginning attempt to create an electronic database on Ong's work, and to find out more about some of his ideas, including orality, check out our website (still under construction): www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/ENG/ong/index.html Ps--Tom Walsh, co-author of the article cited earlier, is just down the hall! Harold K. Bush, Jr. Dept. of English, Saint Louis University