Slightly off-topic, however; I thought some of you on the LIST might like to know that Octavia Butler has died, sadly in a sort of freak accident. I have taught some of her novels on several occasions, particularly DAWN and PARABLE OF THE SOWER, which I am teaching in a few weeks in my 20th-c. American literature class. Butler, 58, died after falling and striking her head Friday on a walkway outside her home in Lake Forest Park [Seattle]. information is available at: http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/49420.php Harold K. Bush, Ph.D Dept. of English, Saint Louis University