Aside from the accent and speech patterns, etc., I'm curious to know about the verisimilitude (wish there was a less pretentious-sounding word for it) of the performance, itself. I saw HH recently in Keene, NH. It was kind of amusing seeing an 80-yr.old doing a convincing job playing an "older" man of 70! What I'm curious about is the content and the stage delivery of his performance. Some of the delivery seemed to me to take undue advantage of the lapel microphone, allowing him to modulate his volume in ways I doubt that Twain could have done on stage and be heard. He'd sometimes seem to mutter funny asides under his breath, and I wonder how Twain could have pulled that off on stage. I suppose there are stage techniques that allow one to "mutter" audibly without microphone help...but not the way HH did it...at least that was the impression I got. Also, he did at least one long reading from HF, acting out the parts fairly dramatically, voices and all, and I wonder if MT included such "dramatic readings" in his "lectures"? Hope I haven't unfairly blasphemed an icon! Ben Benjamin N. Wise Keene State College