Dear Richard and Twain Travelers, Thank you for your generous and thorough delineation of SF Twain connections. I had written half tongue in cheek -- both tongues and both cheeks -- but I've been pleasantly surprised at the blossoming of possibilities as a result. Dennis Kelley can share some further developments when those are ripe. I had known about the Mark Twain Hotel but had forgotten about the saloon. The fact that actual buildings no longer exist has never stopped those who master-mind shrines and tourist sites, so we may yet. A plaque could easily be put up informing flaneurs, "This was the site of The Occidental where Mark Twain once put a pistol to his head but couldn't go through with suicide. He wasn't ashamed of trying, but as so often happened to his endeavors during this time, he did fail." And, by chance, the other day David Kipen published an article on Twain and San Francisco -- a remarkably intelligent and interesting one -- in the San Francisco Chronicle. So, Hannibal may be the Vatican, but SF may at least become a mini-cathedral. Let us pray. Thanks, Hilton Obenzinger Stanford University