Fellow Twain folks: Long time listener, first time caller.... As I was moving around some piles of paper this morning, pretending to be productive before classes begin tomorrow, I riffled past some photocopies of the introduction to Jocelyn Chadwick's *The Jim Dilemma, *leftovers from last year's juniors' reading of *Huckleberry Finn*. I smiled recalling those kids last year and our reading and discussions, recalling too Ms. Chadwick's powerful discussion with a group of teachers a few summers back at the Mark Twain House. That done, I just now finished catching up on the list's conversation, with Camy's question and its several responses, including Ms. Chadwick's. Clearly, though we often *are* a damned human race, maybe even usually, we're not that way this morning, here in this space. Patrick Joseph Clements Teacher Peddie School Hightstown, NJ